Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.

We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.

Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new.

Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.

There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still.

There is a grace and an ease to power. You feel good about yourself and your life when you have it. It is well worth having, and it is certainly miserable not to have it.