Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

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

The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

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.

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.

Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.