Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas.

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back.

All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.