A lean and hungry look

Many of our young men are dangerously dissatisfied. It’s not their fault. They’ve been trained to want what they don’t have—trained, you could say, to suffer.

How to succeed without trying

Keep quiet. Cultivate aloneness. Befriend uncertainty. Excise ambition. Don’t strive. Welcome what comes.

Where moth and rust consume

Whatever requires effort to build will require more effort to maintain and protect.

Manna

Men on bail are required to keep the peace. The rest of us are enjoined to keep quiet.

If my mind is quiet and my heart is pure, Life will bring everything I need to my front door. It will be fresh and new every morning.

If I do not keep quiet, I will need to be a go-getter. “Oh, that Ashford,” people will say, “he’s a real go-getter.”