Tiny Buddha

We choose to hurt ourselves through stress and dread just to be sure we're prepared when something else could potentially hurt us.

How can we both allow ourselves to feel what we need to feel and be sure we don't let the present moment pass us by?

I was for all intents and purposes doing a lot better, but I was not feeling better about the things I was doing.

No matter how justified we feel in our emotions, stewing in them is never the answer to making them go away.

There's so much we can't know, understand, or predict in life. Yet if we learn to listen to ourselves and then to stop listening long enough to simply be in the world, open and available, the answers can seem so clear—answer, really. The real answer is that there are an infinite number of possibilities that we can explore to be happy, connected, engaged, and free.

No matter what religion we follow, what politics we support, what family we were born into, or where we've placed our roots, we all deal with universal problems.