Sublime

I began to realize that beneath all my mood swings, depression, loneliness and addictive behavior lurked that feeling of deep personal deficiency. I was getting my first clear glimpse into a core of suffering that I would revisit again and again in my life. While I felt exposed and raw, I intuitively knew that by facing this pain I was entering a

This is the yearning for competence—to be able.

The prisoner passed from the first to the second phase; the phase of relative apathy, in which he achieved a kind of emotional death.

Acceptance is especially helpful in dealing with stress because so much stress is caused by factors in our lives we can’t change.

we would need to focus more on how to alter the behavioral impact of our thoughts.

The Self pivot begins by catching the hidden sense of your transcendent self.