The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.

Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies.

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.