Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You

When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

Ruggedness without flexibility is rigidity, and flexibility without ruggedness is instability.

Meditation also helps you to not always take your conventional self so seriously. It supports your moving up Loevinger’s ladder of ego development, strengthening the self that can laugh at, and perhaps even let go of, itself.

Sometimes the work of rugged flexibility is simply showing up and getting through. Meaning and growth cannot be forced. They must come on their own time. Fortunately, as we’ll see in the coming pages, if we can learn to get out of our own way, they almost always do.

Nearly everything about social media and cable news teaches us to react instead of respond.

benefit of impermanence is that it does not discriminate: The lows pass too and in all likelihood, we’ll derive at least some meaning and growth from our experience, even if it takes time.

Regularly practicing self-compassion makes you fearless. If you know that you can be kind to yourself, then you can go to tough places, knowing that you’ve got your own back.

In layperson’s terms: the more we use or consume a given technological medium, the more we come to represent it in our actions; or, unfortunately in today’s day and age, our reactions.

You can be with, watch, and take interest in the thing instead of immediately reacting to it. You also develop compassion for yourself and for others, realizing how hard it can be to maintain a measure of equanimity amidst the torrent of thoughts, feelings, and urges that occur during just fifteen minutes of formal meditation, let alone a decades-l