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

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

we can get to the other side of our most challenging trials and tribulations, strength, meaning, growth, kindness, and compassion await.

But we will also experience immense gratitude for all the wonder we find and for the wild and unlikely fact that we are here in the first place.

The crucial work is updating your expectations and confronting reality, even if doing so feels difficult and uncomfortable at first.

He was dropping the weight of resistance

“Interdependent selves, by contrast, view themselves as relational, similar to others, adjusting to their situations, and rooted in traditions and obligations.”

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

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.

the goal is to open to the flow of life and accept change,