Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular situation. It just means that you won't cause yourself emotional discomfort because of the way things are in this moment.

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To be right, be willing to admit you are wrong.

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I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

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As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The movie that is playing on the screen might be horrendous, but you are not the movie. You are what is watching the movie.

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You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

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I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

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Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

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The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at all, while another may feel insecure with a million dollars in the bank. Your feelings of security or insecurity are due to your emotional programming.

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You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy.

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Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

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