Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

Your first daily priority should be stillness, attention to what you really know and what you really feel.

I am free, and always have been; free to accept my own reality, free to trust my perceptions, free to believe what makes me feel sane even if others call me crazy, free to disagree even if it means great loss, free to seek the way home until I find it.

If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity.