The universe is a living entity, and it wants you to thank it.

Don’t take life for granted.

If you appreciate what you have, the universe will give you even more to be grateful for.

Appreciation creates a specific vibration that attracts more things to be grateful for.

If you look closely at an unhappy person living a difficult life, you’ll often find a lack of appreciation.

Every day of your life should be dedicated to answering the most important question:

Who am I?

Trading is interesting; every trade is a tool for discovering who you truly are.

Trading is simple, but not easy.

It is not easy because we bring complexity, confusion, doubt, and uncertainty to the market.

You can reach a pure state where your actions are free from desire.

Self-actualization means letting go of all desires.

No other animal trades or exchanges.

Money transformed and advanced our species.

It should be respected.

We are all responsible for doing what is right because we know what is right.

Conversely, that’s why an infant has no responsibility.

When you misidentify who you are, your world becomes small.

When you truly identify who you are, many of your struggles disappear.

Every thought has a beginning and an end.

The space between thoughts is the pause.

You are the space that your thoughts interrupt.

Meditation is the practice of focusing on that space to reduce thinking.

Time is man-made; it does not exist.

You must observe what the stock did and read between the lines.

The market doesn’t have bars—we break the data into 2-minute slices,

but the market itself doesn’t have 2-minute slices; it’s just an endless stream of ticks.

The market doesn’t have spaces between the bars; we created those spaces.

Questions flow with intelligence.

But the moment you answer them, the flow stops.

You are not the trader (the body); you are the one observing the trader.

What scares you is the possibility of the trader making a foolish decision.

You’re not afraid of a $60 loss; you’re afraid of the trader’s actions.

Fear always stems from the ego.

You’re not afraid of a $40 loss; you’re afraid of feeling less.

Each loss makes you feel diminished as a person.

The ego always pushes you to look outside yourself because it doesn’t want to be discovered.

We suffer from the fear we create.

We are saved by the fear we don’t create.

The market has no inherent order; it’s lawless. You must bring your own order to it.

The same is true for life.

Life is raw material—you have to bring something to shape it.

Your awareness is your reality.

When you become aware of something, you start noticing it more.

Your world is defined by your awareness, and with 8 billion people, there are 8 billion worlds on this planet.

It’s possible that your ego is afraid of you being successful and is blocking your success.

Success would prove your ego wrong about past actions and thoughts.

Perhaps your ego resists because achieving success would mean its own demise.

Ideas are your brain’s children, and you instinctively defend them, even when they’re wrong.

Doing nothing is hard.

Staying out of the market and letting it flow is challenging—just as it’s hard to let life flow without ego intervention.

The ego is a form of fear, born from fear.

Every time you act based on fear, you feed the ego.

The fear of being wrong is a derivative of the fear of death, which the ego is trying to protect you from.

A person who goes through life looking for fairness will face constant disappointment.

Life isn’t about fairness; it’s about understanding probabilities.

Your thinking is your programming.

If you step outside of it and observe, you can break free from the matrix.

Human beings love comeback stories and rooting for the underdog because they see themselves in them.

When you rise, they celebrate you.

But if you rise too high, you become the enemy—they forget you were once one of them.

Any activity that encourages you to look inward and work on yourself is spiritual.  Trading is not just about making money.  Trading is spiritual.

The majority of trading is waiting.

You feel the urge to act, to do something—just as most people live their lives, believing they must always be doing something.

But most of trading involves doing nothing, staying relaxed.

Life is much like a big trade.

You are a witness in life—a watcher, a seer, an observer.

Wait until life reveals when your action is needed.

Be an observer of life’s beauty. Relax and chill.

We have been conditioned to believe that action is always the way to get things done.

But any action arising from pure awareness is true action.

Being silent is an action.

Choosing not to act is, at times, the most important action.

Psychological fear is a creation of the mind and is unnecessary for the human species.

The ego is born from this fear.

Biological fear, on the other hand, is necessary for survival.

Everything negative—depression, anxiety—stems from psychological fear.

Your mind creates things to fear because fear is a product of creativity.

The mind itself is inherently creative.

The beautiful thing about trading is that you don’t have to know the future; you just need to understand the now.

It’s not about the future—it’s about the present moment.

The truth one discovers in life is evidenced by the wounds etched in their heart.

You need to give in order to receive.

You need to lose your life to truly gain it.