Lower your standards and relax as it is.

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.

My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.