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You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.

‘The greatest source of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.’

A person’s values will have an effect on what they consider to be the relevant facts, and what they consider to be the facts will co-determine what values that person has.

One interpretation of 'post-truth’ is that it describes a situation where our language, judgments and claims don’t refer to anything we call facts or reality.

A novel is a measure of the times in which it is written.

We have a strong tendency to create personal illusions about our lives, so that our perceptions of ourselves become increasingly detached from reality.

Conscience alone gives you truthiness at best, not truthfulness.

In a time when people devalue kindness, let your heart remain wide open.
Keep giving your gentleness to the world.
Act with kindness without worrying about what you will get in return.
Even if people forget what you did for them, the universe won't.

A relationship is not an escape, it is a deep form of arrival: one where if you want it to succeed, you will have to face yourself with great honesty and give your partner a high level of presence so you can keep feeding the connection the two of you have.

Who you both were on the first day you met each other is worlds apart from who you are now. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, your likes, dislikes, strengths, and general preferences will change over time. This is not something that you should resist; it is an incentive to remain curious about each other as time moves forward.

Even though you know that the deepest foundation of happiness begins within you, it is easy to fall into old patterns where you are giving away your power. Old patterns take time to unbind. Repeatedly centering yourself around the fact that your perception can make or break your happiness will help you walk into the present moment with greater appreciation and ownership.

One of the best boundaries you can have is simply not letting other people's energy bring down your emotions.
Living in your peace even when you come across those who want you to join them in their storm is a sign of deep maturity.

Your healing is directly seen through the new calmness of your reactions. You still feel sadness, anxiety, tension, etc., but nowhere near as intensely as before.

“Life is meant to be lived”

What seems undesirable in our lives doesn’t have to trigger habitual reactions. We can let it show us where we’re at and let it remind us that the teachings encourage precision and gentleness, with loving-kindness toward every moment.

When something hurts in life, we don’t usually think of it as our path or as the source of wisdom. In fact, we think that the reason we’re on the path is to get rid of this painful feeling.

We were given changes all the time. We can either cling to security, or we can let ourselves feel exposed, as if we had just been born, as if we had just popped out into the brightness of life and were completely naked.

…nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

When you fall in love, recognize it as impermanence, and let that intensify the preciousness.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Thoughts, emotions, moods, and memories come and they go, and basic nowness is always here.

History is too various to offer a single narrative. Life is composed of shades of glass, all slotted together to make a mosaic.

Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives.

The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

hope divorces from reality is just opium.

Immigrants are inventors, after all, tasked with making themselves up, remembering and forgetting in order to assimilate. Perhaps that would
be my inheritance.

nurture your taste and perspective through failure, or trial and error, to discover your personal style.

the opposite of love isn’t hate or rage but indifference.

When only numbers are sought, true value is forgotten: