Take a long view and assume you will fail every now and again.

Instead of wanting things to be different and then being disappointed when they are not, you need to be with your reality as it is, not just for the highs but for the lows too.

They know that always being on isn’t the answer, but they never feel quite right when they are off.

Consider the following: In Buddhism, the goal of the spiritual path, if there is one, is Nirvana, or the dissolution of self in connection with something larger, with an ever-expanding spaciousness and timelessness. Taoism’s central concept, the Way, is described as a non-dual experience, the merging of subject and object—often represented by yin

Rather than looking for connection, the students who were hypnotized to feel lonely were too busy scanning their environment, both internal and external, for signs of threat.

Something I discuss often with my coaching clients is the difference between performing from a place of freedom and love and performing from a place of constriction and fear.

Whenever possible, try to work out with other people for all of the reasons mentioned earlier,

find yourself spiraling into rumination, try to practice self-compassion.

or do precisely what society’s heroic individualism and superficial success culture tell us to do: think positive thoughts, numb and distract ourselves, buy stuff and tweet.