A misunderstanding should never derail a...

A misunderstanding should never derail a friendship. It should strengthen it. If someone becomes your enemy after a misunderstanding - these aren't the type of friends you want in your circle. You can grow without them.

The faulty narrative I always tell myself is...

The faulty narrative I always tell myself is that someday I'm going find enough pieces in books that I'm going to put the puzzle together into an answer for all of these questions that I have —not just about terrible, sad things, like why people have to suffer or why our lives are diminished by the arrangement of the world, but also the wondrous things like love, and the attractions people feel for each other intellectually and otherwise, all of it. I always make the mistake, though, in thinking that I'm going to read my way to the answer. It’s only through my habitual disappointment with the philosophers that I am reminded that there are other experiences that have to happen in order for us to really know anything.

Metacognition is the capacity or skill to...

Metacognition is the capacity or skill to become aware of one’s own mental process. So on the one hand it seems kind of obvious, but if you say, today I’m going to try to notice and simply just notice a part of my mental process I had not yet been aware of. Now that’s interesting because what that is, it’s not just an observational thing. You’ll notice it opens doors to things you never thought of.

Remember to connect with...

Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.

If you don’t get...

If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.

A happy person isn’t someone who’s...

A happy person isn’t someone who’s happy all the time.  It’s someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don’t lose their innate peace.

The attachment to beliefs is...

The attachment to beliefs is the greatest shackle. To be free is to know that One does not know.