The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
If it shouldn't happen, it wouldn't happen.
But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.