Anger is sign that something needs to change.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

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.

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

Anger is sign that something needs to change.