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

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.

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.

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

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

We are what we think, having become what we thought.

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