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“What moves me is watching young men bond together and tap into the magic that arises when they focus—with their whole heart and soul—on something greater than themselves. Once you’ve experienced that, it’s something you never forget.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 78-79
“It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and, of course, luck. But if a team doesn’t have the most essential ingredient—love—none of those other factors matter.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 108-10
“I learned to dial back my ego and distribute power as widely as possible without surrendering final authority. Paradoxically, this approach strengthened my effectiveness because it freed me to focus on my job as keeper of the team’s vision.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc.. 210-12
“Some coaches insist on having the last word, but I always tried to foster an environment in which everyone played a leadership role, from the most unschooled rookie to the veteran superstar. If your primary objective is to bring the team into a state of harmony and oneness, it doesn’t make sense for you to rigidly impose your authority.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 212-14
“One thing I’ve learned as a coach is that you can’t force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 220-21
“But I’ve found that a few kinds, thoughtful words can have a strong transformative effect on relationships, even with the toughest men on the team.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc.298-99
“Management guru Stephen Covey tells this old Japanese tale about a samurai warrior and his three sons: The samurai wanted to teach his sons about the power of teamwork. So he gave each of them an arrow and asked them to break it. No problem. Each son did it easily. Then the samurai gave them a bundle of three arrows bound together and asked them to repeat the process. But none of them could. “That’s your lesson,” the samurai said. “If you three stick together, you will never be defeated.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc.309-13
“The unconscious mind is a terrific solver of complex problems when the conscious mind is busy elsewhere or, perhaps better yet, not overtaxed at all.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc.350-
“Satchel Paige, who said, “Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc.351-52
“What’s more, obsessing about winning is a loser’s game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc.358-60
“Bill Russell, the Boston Celtics great who won more championship rings as a player than anyone else (eleven), revealed in his memoir, Second Wind, that he sometimes secretly rooted for the opposing team during big games because if they were doing well, it meant he would have a more heightened experience.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc.360-62
“Practice doesn’t make perfect,” he used to say. “Perfect practice does.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 471-72 (Practice, Coaching)
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. JOSEPH CAMPBELL” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc.577-78
“Shunryu Suzuki’s classic, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. Suzuki, a Japanese teacher who played a key role in bringing Zen Buddhism to the West, talked about learning to approach each moment with a curious mind that is free of judgment. “If your mind is empty,” he writes, “it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 577-78
“Zen teacher Steve Hagen writes, “Buddhism is about seeing. It’s about knowing rather than believing or hoping or wishing. It’s also about not being afraid to examine anything and everything, including your own personal agendas.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc 722-23
“Shunryu Suzuki’s instructions on how to meditate are simple: Sit with your spine straight, your shoulders relaxed, and your chin pulled in, “as if you were supporting the sky with your head.” Follow your breath with your mind as it moves in and out like a swinging door. Don’t try to stop your thinking. If a thought arises, let it come, then let it go and return to watching your breath. The idea is not to try to control your mind but to let thoughts rise and fall naturally over and over again. After some practice, the thoughts will start to float by like passing clouds, and their power to dominate consciousness will diminish.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 723-29
“For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost. For want of a rider, the message was lost. For want of a message, the battle was lost. For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 964-68
“Think lightly of yourself and think deeply of the world. MIYAMOTO MUSASHI” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 1071-72
“Edwin Markham’s “Outwitted”: He drew the circle that shut me out— Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in!” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 1178-81
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. ROALD DAHL” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 1210-12
“The master nodded. “To hear the unheard,” he said, “is a necessary discipline to be a good ruler. For only when a ruler has learned to listen closely to the people’s hearts, hearing their feelings uncommunicated, pains unexpressed, and complaints not spoken of, can he hope to inspire confidence in the people, understand when something is wrong, and meet the true needs of his citizens.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 1359-62
“But the most effective way to deal with anxiety, I’ve discovered, is to make sure that you’re as prepared as possible for whatever is coming your way.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 1373-74
“The way you do anything is the way you do everything. TOM WAITS” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Kindle Loc. 110
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but . . . life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 120.
“In The Tao of Leadership, John Heider stresses the importance of interfering as little as possible. “Rules reduce freedom and responsibility,” he writes. “Enforcement of rules is coercive and manipulative, which diminishes spontaneity and absorbs group energy. The more coercive you are, the more resistant the group will become.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 121
“In his book, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, Maslow describes the key steps to attaining self-actualization: experiencing life “vividly, selflessly, with full concentration and total absorption”; making choices from moment to moment that foster growth rather than fear; becoming more attuned to your inner nature and acting in concert with who you are; being honest with yourself and taking responsibility for what you say and do instead of playing games or posing; identifying your ego defenses and finding the courage to give them up; developing the ability to determine your own destiny and daring to be different and non-conformist; creating an ongoing process for reaching your potential and doing the work needed to realize your vision. fostering the conditions for having peak experiences, or what Maslow calls “moments of ecstasy” in which we think, act, and feel more clearly and are more loving and accepting of others.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 124
“To make your work meaningful, you need to align it with your true nature. “Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey,” writes activist, teacher, and lay monk Wayne Teasdale in A Monk in the World. “For work to be sacred, it must be connected to our spiritual realization. Our work has to represent our passion, our desire to contribute to our culture, especially to the development of others. By passion I mean the talents we have to share with others, the talents that shape our destiny and allow us to be of real service to others in our community.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 125
“Native American songwriter James Yellowbank, who says, “The task of life is to keep your world in order.” And that takes discipline, a healthy balance between work and play, and nourishment of mind, body, and spirit within the context of community—values” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 125
“The word “mindfulness” has become so diluted in recent years that it’s lost much of its original meaning. It comes from the Sanskrit word smriti, which means “remember.” “Mindfulness is remembering to come back to the present moment,” writes Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. This is an ongoing process that is not limited to the act of meditation itself. “Sitting and watching our breath is a wonderful practice, but it is not enough,” he adds. “For transformation to take place, we have to practice mindfulness all day long, not just on our meditation cushion.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 137
“Because most of us—basketball players included—spend so much time bouncing back and forth between thoughts of the past and the future that we lose touch with what’s happening right here, right now. And that prevents us from appreciating the deep mystery of being alive. As Kabat-Zinn writes in Wherever You Go, There You Are, “The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness of the web of life in which we are embedded.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 137
“Michael said he was considering a return to basketball and wondered if he could come to practice the next day and work out with the team. “Well, I think we’ve got a uniform here that might fit you,” I replied.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 145
“When Michael finally decided to return, his agent sent out what may be the pithiest press release in history. All it said was, “I’m back.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 145
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy. STEVE JOBS” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 149
“He joked about being compared to his former self all the time. “According to some people,” he said, “I’m even failing to live up to Michael Jordan. But I have the best chance of being him because I am him.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 159
“When the buzzer sounded, Michael gave Scottie and me a quick hug, darted to center court to grab the ball, then retreated to the locker room to get away from the TV cameras. When I got there, he was curled up on the floor hugging the ball to his chest, tears streaming down his face. Michael dedicated the game to his father. “This is probably the hardest time for me to play the game of basketball,” he said. “I had a lot of things on my heart, on my mind. . . . And maybe my heart wasn’t geared to where it was. But I think deep down inside, it was geared to what was most important to me, which was my family and my father not being there to see this. I’m just happy that the team kind of pulled me through it because it was a tough time for me.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 166
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. SØREN KIERKEGAARD” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 168
“Everything changes.” Those words, Suzuki said, contain the basic truth of existence: Everything is always in flux. Until you accept this, you won’t be able to find true equanimity. But to do that means accepting life as it is, not just what you consider the “good parts.” “That things change is the reason why you suffer in this world and become discouraged,” Suzuki-roshi writes in Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen. “[But] when you change your understanding and your way of living, then you can completely enjoy your new life in each moment. The evanescence of things is the reason you enjoy your life.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 168
“There’s a Zen saying I often cite that goes, “Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” The point: Stay focused on the task at hand rather than dwelling on the past or worrying about the future.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 173
“Riley was humbled by the loss. “Dynasties get better as they get older,” he said, adding that he thought the Bulls were “the greatest team in the history of the game since the Celtics when they won 11 in 13 years.” This was the fourth time one of his teams had been knocked out of the playoffs by the Jordan-led Bulls. “We all have the misfortune of being born at the same time as Michael Jordan,” he added.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 179
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. TULI KUPFERBERG” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 184
“Looking back, I think my struggle with Jerry taught me things about myself that I couldn’t have learned any other way. The Dalai Lama calls it “the enemy’s gift.” From a Buddhist perspective, battling with enemies can help you develop greater compassion for and tolerance of others. “In order to practice sincerely and to develop patience,” he says, “you need someone who willfully hurts you. Thus, these people give us real opportunities to practice these things. They are testing our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 185
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing,” writes Chodron. “We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 200
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. THICH NHAT HANH” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 200
“Martin Luther King Jr. spoke eloquently about this phenomenon. “In a real sense, all of life is interrelated,” he said. “All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 211
“Greatness is a spiritual condition. MATTHEW ARNOLD” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 213
“In a nutshell, the Buddha taught that life is suffering and that the primary cause of our suffering is our desire for things to be different from the way they actually are. One moment, things may be going our way, and in the next moment, they’re not. When we try to prolong pleasure or reject pain, we suffer. On the bright side, the Buddha also prescribed a practical way for eliminating craving and unhappiness by following what he called the Noble Eightfold Path. The steps were right to view, right thinking, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 219
“I too had a personal breakthrough that season. I learned to overcome my fear of the unknown and create a new life in a new city without losing what I loved most. This was a time for me to establish new, deeper relationships with my children—not just Brooke, who lived in the house, but also my other children, who visited regularly. It was also a time for me to continue to open up spiritually. During difficult moments, meditation had helped me cope with all the uncertainty and self-doubt that arise when you break from the past and throw yourself into a new life. I felt more alive than I had in years.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 229
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. ZEN PROVERB” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 231
“Rick compares Kobe’s competitive drive to that of M.J., whom Fox worked with at Jordan’s basketball camps when he was a college student. Rick says: “There are no other individuals I’ve known who act like they do. To them, winning at all costs is all that matters. And they demand that everyone around them act the same way, regardless of whether they can or not. They say, ‘Find somewhere inside yourself to get better, because that’s what I’m doing every day of the week, every minute of the day.’ They have no tolerance for anything less. None.” But Fox noticed a difference between Michael and Kobe. “Michael had to win at everything,” he recalls. “I mean he couldn’t drive from Chapel Hill to Wilmington without making it a race. Whether you wanted to compete or not, he was competing with you. But I think Kobe competes with himself more than anything else. He sets barriers and challenges for himself, and he just happens to need other people to come along with him. He’s playing an individual sport in a team uniform—and dominating it. Once he steps off the court, though, he’s not interested in competing with you in the way you dress or how you drive. He’s obsessed with chasing the goals he set for himself at age 15 or 16.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 234
“I generally prefer taking a page from the playbook of the other Chicago Jerry—Jerry Reinsdorf. He once said that the best way to handle most flare-ups is to sleep on them. The point is to avoid acting out of anger and creating an even stickier mess. And if you’re lucky, the problem may resolve itself.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 237
“In the foreword to his adaptation of Lao-tzu’s Tao TeChing, Stephen Mitchell compares non-action to athletic performance. “A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will,” he writes. “This is the paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can’t tell the dancer from the dance.” Or as Lao-tzu proclaims in Mitchell’s work: Less and less do you need to force things, until finally, you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 238
“This was a team—despite all the turmoil—that knew it was destined for greatness, if only it could get out of its own way.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 244
“In her book The Zen Leader, Ginny Whitelaw describes how joy arises when people are bound together by a strong sense of connectedness. “This joy may be more subtle than the ‘jump for joy’ variety,” she writes. “It may feel like full engagement in what we do, and a quiet satisfaction arising. It may feel like energy that keeps renewing itself, much as pumping a swing seemingly gives us more energy than it takes.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 244
“Eckhart Tolle observes: “With enthusiasm, you find you don’t have to do it all yourself. In fact, there is nothing of significance you can do by yourself. Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy and all you have to do then is ride the wave.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 244
“Gandhi once said, “Suffering cheerfully endured ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 248
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. GEORGE MACDONALD” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 249
“Remember that scene in the first Indiana Jones movie when someone asks Indy what he’s going to do next, and he replies, “I don’t know, I’m making it up as we go along.” That’s how I view leadership. It’s an act of controlled improvisation, a Thelonious Monk finger exercise, from one moment to the next.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 251
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. THE BUDDHA” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 262
“In Western culture, we tend to view anger as a flaw that needs to be eliminated. That’s how I was raised. As devout Christians, my parents felt that anger was a sin and should be dispelled. But trying to eliminate anger never works. The more you try to suppress it, the more likely it is to erupt later in a more virulent form. A better approach is to become as intimate as possible with how anger works on your mind and body so that you can transform its underlying energy into something productive. As Buddhist scholar, Robert Thurman writes, “Our goal surely is to conquer anger, but not to destroy the fire it has misappropriated. We will wield that fire with wisdom and turn it to creative ends.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 269
“Anger is an energizing emotion that enhances the sustained attention needed to solve problems and leads to more flexible “big picture” thinking.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 269
“No question, anger focuses the mind. It’s an advance warning system alerting us to threats to our well-being. When viewed this way, anger can be a powerful force for bringing about positive change. But it takes practice—and no small amount of courage—to be present with such uncomfortable feelings and yet not be swept away by them.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 269
“Buddhist meditation teacher Sylvia Boorstein, “An unexpressed anger creates a breach in relationships that no amount of smiling can cross. It’s a secret. A lie. The compassionate response is one that keeps connections alive. It requires telling the truth. And telling the truth can be difficult, especially when the mind is stirred up by anger.”” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 270
“Forget mistakes, forget failures, forget everything, except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. WILL DURANT” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 278
“Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It’s about mastering the art of letting go.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 309
“Fall down seven times. Stand up eight. CHINESE PROVERB” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 310
“Kobe likes to say that he learned 90 percent of what he knows about leadership from watching me in action. “It’s not just a basketball way of leadership,” he says, “but a philosophy of how to live. Being present and enjoying each moment as it comes. Letting my children develop at their own pace and not trying to force them into doing something they’re not really comfortable with, but just nurturing and guiding them along. I learned that all from Phil.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 316
“The late Lakers’ broadcaster, Chick Hearn, often used to proclaim when he thought a contest had been decided: “This game’s in the refrigerator, the door is closed, the lights are out, the eggs are cooling, the butter’s getting hard, and the jello’sjigglin!” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success(Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 332
“Like many competitors, one of the main driving forces in my life has been not just to win but to avoid losing.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 332
“For me, the nerves usually kick into high gear in the middle of the night. I’ll sleep for a few hours, then—bang!—my brain is up and spinning. “Should I have done this, should I have done that? God, what a terrible call in the fourth quarter. Maybe I should have called a different play?” And so on. Sometimes I have to sit and meditate for a long time before the noise settles down and I can go back to sleep.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 333
“Zen teacher JakushoKwong suggests becoming “an active participant in loss.” We’re conditioned to seek only gain, to be happy, and to try to satisfy all our desires, he explains. But even though we may understand on some level that loss is a catalyst for growth, most people still believe it to be the opposite of gain and to be avoided at all costs. If I’ve learned anything in my years of practicing Zen and coaching basketball, it’s that what we resist persists. Sometimes the letting go happens quickly; other times it may take several sleepless nights. Or weeks.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 333
“Buddhist sages say that there’s only “a tenth of an inch of difference” between heaven and earth.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 334
“The soul of success is surrendering to what is.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 334
“Tozan Ryokai, a ninth-century Buddhist monk: Do not try to see the objective world. You which is given an object to see is quite different from you yourself. I am going my own way and I meet myself which includes everything I meet. I am not something I can see (as an object). When you understand self which includes everything, You have your true way.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 334
“This is the essence of what we’ve been trying to convey in this book: that the path of transformation is to see yourself as something beyond the narrow confines of your small ego—something that “includes everything.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 335
“Basketball isn’t a one-person game, even though the media lords sometimes portray it that way. Nor is it a five-person game, for that matter. It’s an intricate dance that includes everything happening at any given moment—the tap of the ball against the rim, the murmur of the crowd, the glint of anger in your opponent’s eyes, the chatter of your own monkey mind.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty) Page 335