I was full of rage. My self-esteem was so low that I actually slept on the floor every night, because I didn't believe I deserved a bed to sleep in.

I like to say understanding is the power.

When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe.

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.