Life is a single-player game, but meaning is derived on multi-player mode. You’re responsible for the actions you take, but the results of those actions will be shared amongst others. Everything you do contributes to the state of the world, irrespective of how large or small you think that impact may be.

Worry is the belief that you’re not satisfying a specific expectation, even after you’ve done your best to satisfy it. Rather than leave it up to forces outside your control, your attachment to an outcome will make you believe that worrying gives you the control you desperately desire.

When you are conditioned, every action feels tense. But when you have conviction, every action feels fluid.

Anytime you think you “should” do something, that’s conditioning. Anytime you compare yourself to another, that’s conditioning. Anything that causes fear or worry to arise is conditioning, as peace is disturbed only when you have an expectation that lies beyond the present moment.

contentment doesn’t reside in what you previously were, but rather in an embrace of what you currently are.

Anytime you have an expectation of becoming something you are not, that is conditioning. This doesn’t only apply to other people, but also to prior versions of yourself.

When you are suffering, you do so because you don’t understand who you truly are. Every thread of mental anguish ties back to an inability to trust yourself, which makes you outsource your thoughts and actions to an outside entity. But given that contentment can only be found within, the tendency to deny your intuition is the surest route to

What conditioning does, however, is to convince us that our curiosities are sources of fear. It will make us believe that our intuition is faulty, and that success or serenity will be elusive if we follow it. It will make us believe that everyone else has the answers, and that listening to our own voice is a distraction from pursuing what’s

At its core, that’s what suffering is. It’s the belief that peace can’t be found within yourself, so you have to attain it through a series of outcomes.