Interview with Lao Tzu: Go with the flow

In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action.

Interview with Seneca: Travel won't save you

Travel as far as you like, but you still won’t escape desire, fear, anger, and all of your other mental problems.

Interview with Krishna: Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita

Pleasures conceived in the world of senses have a beginning and end, and give birth to misery. The wise do not look for happiness there, but find their joy completely within themselves.

Interview with Camus: Life is worth living

The succession of presents before a constantly conscious soul is the ideal of the absurd man. The absurd revolt is a tribute that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.

Interview with Emerson: Think for yourself

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great person is one who in the midst of a crowd can perfectly maintain the independence of solitude.

Interview with Rilke: Creativity requires solitude

Perhaps it will turn out that you were called to be an artist. If that is your fate, then accept it and deal with it, the highs and the lows, the burden and the greatness, without ever worrying about external rewards.

Interview with Leonardo da Vinci

I told him that creative people sometimes accomplish the most when they work the least. Our minds are filled with ideas, and we need time for those ideas to marinate, until we eventually get an insight.

Interview with Seneca: Life is not short

The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal your property, but you consistently let people steal your time, which is infinitely more valuable.

Interview with Marcus Aurelius: The Mind of a Benevolent Dictator

We should accept nature’s plan, even if it doesn’t feel great in the moment, because we can trust that it will lead to the well-being of all of humanity and the universe.