Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don’t need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it.

Anger is sign that something needs to change.

One of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also washes us up on the shores of the loved one's otherness. Sooner or later, love makes us feel inescapably separate.