Whenever your ability to see yourself increases, so, too, does the patience you have with the people around you.

we all have a hard time remaining in the present. During difficult moments, our past will reemerge to try to help us make sense of a new experience by matching it to our past, but that then often activates old reactive patterns. Additionally, all of us at some time experience fear, greed, jealousy, anger, and other emotions that thicken our

What the mind knows best is repetition, which normally keeps us in a state of survival mode that defaults into blind behavior, especially when difficult situations arise.

When we are honest with ourselves about what is not serving us, we can redirect our energy.

Though all human beings have very different histories, we all live through the same spectrum of emotions.

a structural problem: Having very little money filled their minds with tension and they often projected that tension onto each other.

The more we come in contact with our truth and learn to embrace it with full acceptance, the more we are able to find greater personal harmony.

Self-love helps us build internal cohesion so that we are no longer far away from ourselves.

My constant craving for more, plus the feeling of ever-present insecurity and an enduring sense of sadness,