The Buddha and the Badass Quotes

“Your soul isn’t here to achieve. Your soul is here to grow. Most people get this wrong. They become seduced by success and broken by failure.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work

“Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own. —Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed. —Terence McKenna”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work

“Your soul isn’t here to achieve. Your soul is here to grow. Most people get this wrong. They become seduced by success and broken by failure. They add great meaning to what is essentially meaningless. The true reality is that success and failure are illusions. The only thing that matters is how fast you’re evolving. Your journey is about removing all the barriers that hold you back from self-actualization.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work

“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work

“Sometimes, you have to destroy a part of your life that is merely good, to allow what is truly great to enter.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work

“The most important thing that our business schools need to teach us is that your work is not about your work. Rather, your work is nothing more than the ultimate vehicle for your personal growth.

If your business fails, it doesn't matter. The question is, how did you grow? If your business becomes a billion dollars, it doesn't matter. The question is, how did you grow? - Srikumar Rao”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work

“The desire to feel happy or think positively all the time hinders many people's authentic existence. It lowers resilience.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work

“Greatness is best achieved with others. The world is too complex to strike it alone. People are drawn to you not because of your business plan. Humans are moved by emotion more than logic. The greatest gift you can give someone is to invite them to share in a dream.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work

“In most cases, anyone can imitate your business. But nobody can imitate your business if it's built based on your story. When your values infuse your business, you've given special life to your creation.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work

“Now, here is the big secret: The bigger your vision is, the easier it gets. When you live this way, you may find that the vision is not coming from you. Instead, the Universe is choosing to go through you to realize what the world needs.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work

“It's because we grow through discomfort or insight. But never through apathy.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work

“When a person experiences a transformation, they can’t go back to being the same as they were before. It’s a perspective shift that’s irreversible. In short, a person whose mind is expanded and stretched by transformation cannot revert back to their old beliefs.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work

“Learning is what you get from school. When it comes to classes like history, geography. and algebra, schools teach you facts and ideas—most of which you’re going to forget. This is LEARNING. But true growth comes from something else. Something much more powerful than learning. It’s called TRANSFORMATION. When you learn a fact you can forget it the next day. But a transformation is when your entire worldview shifts. When a transformation occurs there is an opening for a new way of seeing the world. It’s a complete shift in perspective. A transformation causes an exponential jump in who you are as a person. It may jolt you and rejig some of your long-held beliefs and values.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work

“Lack of vision for your life will have you taking unintentional actions that don’t align with what you want.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work

“Your seed will produce only what it’s meant to produce. That’s it. Don’t get caught up with distractions. Don’t get caught up in manipulation. Don’t get caught up in the noise of society. Tune in within.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work

“Know that this book may challenge some of your deeply held beliefs about life.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work

“The Universe acts as a mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. The miracle of this is that you can shift your identity and the world will obey. But you must shift it so deeply you believe the new identity and live life in accordance with it.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work

“Edmund O’Sullivan is a transformative learning expert at the Transformative Learning Centre in Toronto, Canada. In academic terms he defines a transformational moment in this way: “Transformation involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in the basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift in consciousness that dramatically and irreversibly alters our way of being in the world.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: Find Bliss and Conquer the World with a New Way of Work