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.

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

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

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.

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.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.