Inner #‎ peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your #‎ emotions

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to escape and find something or someone to keep us company. When we can rest in the middle, we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down.