Spiritual Awakening

The things that other people do usually have nothing to do with you.

Avoiding unpleasant emotions only works for so long.

Happiness is an inside job.

Life has a tendency to flow whichever way it wants to. It’s easier to go with it rather than fight against it.

Every human being can develop their capacity to be more aware.

Instead of stuffing down your depression, anxiety, shame, loneliness—or whatever emotion you’re tempted to resist—ask yourself: What message is it trying to send to me?

In any moment, we have a narrative about that moment. A story, an interpretation, an evaluation. And that story will determine our experience.

Remind yourself that thoughts are just tiny little electrical impulses firing off in your brain. They have no meaning beyond the meaning you attribute to them.

The more discomfort you’re able to tolerate, the less you’ll worry about preventing it from happening.

Expecting every meditation to be relaxing and calm is a good recipe for not making it relaxing and calm.

Even just a few carefully deployed deep breaths can improve the quality of your day.

Get to know your negative thoughts and feelings. It might help you to respond to them in a better way.

You have had peace before, and you will have peace again.

Don’t let anybody else tell you how you should be feeling.

We struggle with accepting ourselves as we are because we’re operating based on the false belief that we’re not good enough.

Working on yourself is just that— work. It can be arduous and tiresome, but it’s worth it.

By giving the mind the time and space to just be, good ideas are more likely to arise.

You can train your brain to process your everyday experience differently.

Your ability to relax is dependent on your ability to feel discomfort.

When you are more aware of the thoughts running through your mind you are better able to choose which ones to act upon and which one to let go of.