One of the most human things that you can do is reach out for the stars knowing that you might not ever touch them; we are all perfectly imperfect, but to live knowing so is to be a fulfilled human being.

— Oli Anderson

Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.

— Oli Anderson

Our modern day, hyper-rat-race culture often leads us to mistakenly confuse'busy' for 'success'. The truth of the matter is that if you're constantly having to tell people how busy you are and how overwhelmed with work or stressed you are, what you're really telling them is that you can't cope with what's on your plate. You're ‘failing’.

— Oli Anderson

Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you’d like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.

— Oli Anderson

Remember: knowing originates on the inside, knowledge on the outside. Certain facts and concepts may change, come into being, disappear, or be replaced, but what it is to be a human being will never really be all that different. Every person to ever live, now and the whole of history, has had a rich and elaborate world of inner experience, but it has mainly been flesh upon the same skeleton. We are all born, come to terms with the world, and then come to terms with coming to terms with the world, as we go through the stages of puberty, old age, death and making sense of it all in between. We all live the same process in different ways. Some live it longer than others and some cover more ground. But that's it.

— Oli Anderson

See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

— Oli Anderson

The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.

— Oli Anderson

The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.

— Oli Anderson

There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.

— Oli Anderson

This world is your world, but that doesn't mean you can always stop it from burning.

— Oli Anderson