Sublime

intentions lead to mental actions, and repeated mental actions become mental habits.

Self-compassion

The science of “PNEI,” or psycho-neuro-endocrine-immune system, has mapped out these connections clearly and powerfully.

The more we identify with a limited and fixed version of our self, the more vulnerable this self is to hurt and harm, to the effects of change, accident and turbulence. If it has no flexibility, it is fragile.

because the things that have the power to cause us the most pain are often the things we care about most deeply.

In a deep sense it is boundless, timeless; it connects us all to one another. We are conscious.

Of the many emerging descriptions of our social brain, for me the simplest and most elegant is the highly regarded Social Baseline Theory of Lane Beckes and James A. Coan, two researchers at the University of Virginia.

We are entangled with all things and our decisions as to what to think and feel have a direct impact on how we collapse the wave function of our reality.