" Shantideva. the Indian Buddhist sage, talks about licking honey off the edge of a blade. No matter how sweet, the price we pay is much higher.

By wallowing in my own nostalgic memories, spending so much time thinking about a relationship that had moved on, I had been needlessly carrying pain. Suffering.

We begin to believe that our happiness depends on a certain outcome or person or lifestyle. That's the superstition.

It can be useful to have goals. Purpose. But we should never believe that our happiness depends on achieving them. The two are really quite separate.

Don't allow your thoughts to be like thieves, stealing your own contentment.

Thinking too much about oneself is a cause of much suffering, the Dalai Lama said. Anxiety, depression, resentment, fear - these become much worse with too much attention to the self. The mantra "me, me, me" is not so good. "

― David Michie , The Art of Purring (The Dalai Lama's Cat, #2)