When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
A lot of people are not meant to be together.
I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.
We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.
I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!
To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.