Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.

Breathe in, breathe out, no fear, no doubt.

Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.

Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

Everything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.