Kamal Ravikant Quotes

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

So I return to the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" The answer comes easy: I'd fly. Fly as high as I possibly can. Then, I'd fly higher.

The greatest achievement of humanity is the human spirit.

The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers.

Imagine the feeling of catching yourself loving yourself without trying. It's like catching a sunset out of the corner of your eye. It will stop you.

Once you cross the threshold, you will never be the same. That is a fact.

The Secret to Flight

Don't flap your wings so hard. It only exhausts you.

Close your eyes. Lean into the currents, say yes. Let the wind raise you higher and higher. So easy. That's what Eagles do.

Oh, this is the secret to life as well.

I cannot emphasize enough the quality of those you surround yourself with.

How do you find peace?" I ask.
"I say 'yes,'" he says.
"To all that happens, I say 'yes.

The stories Hemingway told, the life he lived, all of it ended with a squeeze of a finger on a trigger. What else could he have done if he had put the shotgun down, gone back to bed? What would he have learned in that moment of choosing to live, what other books would have been written? Meanwhile,

Forget demolishing the grooves of the past. What you're creating is a new groove so deep, so powerful, that your thoughts will automatically flow down this one.

Here we are, thinking that one needs to be in love with another to shine, to feel free and shout from the rooftops, but the most important person, the most important relationship we'll ever have is waiting, is craving to be loved truly and deeply.

Once heard someone explain thoughts as this: we, as human beings, think that we're thinking. Not true. Most of the time, we're remembering. We're re-living memories. We're running familiar patterns and loops in our head. For happiness, for procrastination, for sadness. Fears, hopes, dreams, desires. We have loops for everything.

Decide what your truth is. Then live it.

This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply - in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I LOVE MYSELF.

We are far, far stronger than our pain

Reach out, share your truth, tell someone, "This is who I am. This is what I stand for. Hold me to it." Often, we'll do far more for another than we will do for ourselves.

Life is a river," a wise friend told me. "It's flowing. You're never at the same place twice.

If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this?

The key, at least for me, has been to let go. Let go of the ego, let go of attachments, let go of who I think I should be, who others think I should be. And as I do that, the real me emerges, far far better than the Kamal I projected to the world. There is a strength in this vulnerability that cannot be described, only experienced.

If you're about to take a risk
one that comes from within, one that expresses your true nature, that brings up fear after fear after fear
you know what to do. One: do the work, create the value. Two: draw the people that encourage you closer. They're the only ones that matter.

Confidence comes from crossing thresholds.

Truth makes you rise to new heights, no matter where you are.

When we go all in, we find the answers. They're in us.

As you love yourself, life loves you back. I don't think it has a choice either. I can't explain how it works, but I know it to be true.

Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.

Hemingway, whenever he was stuck in his writing, would tell himself to write one true thing. A true sentence. Then, he would write another. And another. It

Keep in mind, Bandler once cured a guy who thought he was Jesus by bringing in three muscular football players dressed as Roman Centurions and wood for a life-size cross into his hospital room. Then, he proceeded to nail the cross together, pausing occasionally to measure the guy as the Centurions held him down. By the time they were ready for the crucifixion, the man was convinced he wasn't Jesus. Even after the drama had passed, the cure stuck.

After all, it's the things we hold against ourselves that weigh us down more than anything.

Suffering is when we resist the moment.

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

This I know: the mind, left to itself, repeats the same stories, the same loops. Mostly ones that don't serve us. So what's practical, what's transformative, is to consciously choose a thought. Then practice it again and again. With emotion, with feeling, with acceptance. Lay down the synaptic pathways until the mind starts playing it automatically. Do this with enough intensity over time and the mind will have no choice. That's how it operates. Where do you think your original loops came from?

Often, the price for not being present is pain. Now,

One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.

The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible.

Peace is letting it be. Letting life flow, letting emotions flow through you.

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good.

You cannot stay at the same level as when you first practiced your truth, life won't let you.

Memory is not set in stone. Any neuroscientist will tell you that. The more you remember something, especially if it's emotionally charged, the more you will reinforce the pathways connecting the neurons. Simply put, the more you think about it, the more you feel it, the stronger the memory.

What we believe, that's what we seek, it's the filter we view our lives through.

If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.

Knowledge is never enough. Even action, if it's just following a prescribed way, will never fully express your potential.

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

So I ask myself the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" I love this question. There is no threat, no right or wrong answer, only an invitation to my truth in this present moment.

If a painful memory arises, don't fight it or try to push it away - you're in quicksand. Struggle reinforces pain. Instead, go to love. Love for yourself. Feel it. If you have to fake it, fine. It'll become real eventually. Feel the love for yourself as the memory ebbs and flows. That will take the power away.

I once asked a monk how he found peace. "I say 'yes,'" he'd said. "To all that happens, I say 'yes.

Surrender means cleaning the window so light can enter.

instead of reading loads of self-help books, attending various seminars, listening to different preachers, we should just pick one thing. Something that feels true for us. Then practice it fiercely.

There is one rule, though: once you discover your truth, you have to go all in. Fully. Every single chip.

Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.

I think perhaps a better thing to want is fulfillment. A deeper state, one that comes from within, from being your best self. From living life the way you really wish to live it. Then, happiness emanates from within as a byproduct. Naturally.

Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.

The simple act of putting your truth on paper, only you and your thoughts, is one of the most powerful exercises you can do.

Threshold is where the madness ends and the magic begins.

It is not giving up, it is accepting. And the light will enter. Always does.

As long as it works, it's valid.