The Most Important Thing

The most important thing
is to figure out what is
the most important thing.

Shunryu Suzuki

Someone We Are Not

Most of our tensions and frustrations
stem from compulsive needs to 
act the role of someone we are not.

Janos (Hans) Selye

Happiness Imagined

Happiness may look entirely different
from the way you imagine it.

Byron Katie

Trauma is ...

Trauma is not what happened to you,
but what happened inside you as a result.

Gabor Mate

The Greatest Calamity

The fundamental thing that happened,
and the greatest calamity, is not that there
was no love or support. The greater calamity,
which is caused by the first calamity is that
you lost the connection to your essence.
That is much more important than whether
your mother or father loved you or not.

A.H. Almaas (A. Hameed Ali)