The Secret to Everything Quotes

“beyond pleasure and relaxation, try to do something fulfilling each and every day, like working towards a long-term goal or making a (positive) difference to someone’s life.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“Sleep is the best meditation. ​— ​Dalai Lama”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“When you paint a picture or write a book, it is there for ever (and isn’t that just amazing?).”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“The more we rush, the less we contemplate; and the less we contemplate, the less we see and understand. Time is a very strange thing, and not at all linear: sometimes, the best way of using it is to ‘waste’ it.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“To describe is to know, to know is to understand, and to understand is to appreciate, enjoy, and even, to some extent, control.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“We must cultivate our garden.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“life is consciousness, and consciousness is life.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“Γνῶθι σεαυτόν Know thyself.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“Fake news’ is nothing new, but in our Internet age it has spread like a contagious disease, swinging elections, fomenting social unrest, undermining institutions, and diverting political capital away from health, education, the environment, and all-round good government.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“Gratitude’ concludes Æsop, ‘is the sign of a noble soul’.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“Ingratitude, which, at least in the West, has become the norm, corrodes social bonds and undermines public trust, leading to societies built on rights and entitlements rather than duties and obligations, on ‘me’ rather than ‘we’, and in which every aspect of human life has to be regulated, recorded, and monitored.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“of all the crimes that human creatures are capable of committing, the most horrid and unnatural is ingratitude...”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“This eagle-eyed, god-like perspective frees us to live life, no longer for ourselves, but for life itself.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“phenomenology enables us to study not only the phenomena themselves, but also, by extension, the very structures of human experience and consciousness.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“The word ‘phenomena’ derives from the Ancient Greek meaning ‘things that appear’, and phenomenology can be defined as the direct examination and description of phenomena as they are consciously experienced. Pioneered by Edmund Husserl (d. 1938) as a philosophical tool, phenomenology involves paying close attention to objects so that they begin to reveal themselves, not as we take them to be, but as they truly appear to naked human consciousness, shorn of superimposed theories and preconceptions.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“narcissism,”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“empirical”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“sensations,”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“disparate”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“perceptions”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“excised”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“imperilled”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“flurry”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“psyche”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“anarchy.”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“sheer”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“fascination”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“congenial”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“hideous”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less

“mutates”
― Neel Burton, The Secret to Everything: How to Live More and Suffer Less