If you’re having a stressful or upsetting experience, simple pleasures such as listening to music can move the needle of your internal stress-o-meter… - Rick Hanson

inescapable physical or mental discomfort is the “first dart” of existence.

It’s a remarkable fact that the people who have gone the very deepest into the mind — the sages and saints of every religious tradition — all say essentially the same thing: your fundamental nature is pure, conscious, peaceful, radiant, loving, and wise, and it is joined in mysterious ways with the ultimate underpinnings of reality, by whatever name we give That.

the importance of developing grit in the first place for the challenges you know about and the ones waiting around the corner to surprise you.