Anger is sign that something needs to change.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.

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.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

Anger is sign that something needs to change.