I knew a monkey once. She belonged to the woman who owned the hotel across the street from my childhood home in Ethiopia.

If we don’t have the justice system or our parents to punish us when we feel guilty, we do it ourselves.

I’ve come to realize negative outcomes are just as likely as positive. Not thinking about the other side doesn’t make it go away.

You’d think we’d change our position in the face of new information, but after many battles within the mind, we typically stay stubborn to our dominant beliefs.

Perennial joy or passing pleasure? This is the choice one is to make always. — Katha Upanishad 1:2:2

Though the unwise cling to their actions, watching for results, the wise are free of attachments, and act for the well-being of the whole world.

The people around me may hold different perspectives than I do. No one is right or wrong. It’s just differen

Sometimes I think we hate our lives. We do whatever we can to avoid it, whether that be TV (I’m guilty), video games, booze, drugs, or anything else that distracts us from our emotions and how we experience life.

In a society driven by productivity, where being constantly busy is the norm, it’s easy to lose sight of what truly matters.

You can’t get hurt if your expectation is that you’ll get hurt.