"Everything passes, everything." ~ Anthony de Mello from Awareness Ah, impermanence.  Everything passes.  Reminds me of Abraham Lincoln and my Vipassana meditation teacher, S.N. Goenka. First, Goenka: One of the key ideas during my 10-day silent Vipassana meditation experience was the...

 “Why don’t I see goodness and beauty everywhere? Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.” ~ Anthony de Mello from Awareness How people see the world is such a *fascinating* look into how they...

“Never identify with that feeling. It has nothing to do with the ‘I.’ Don’t define your essential self in terms of that feeling. Don’t say, ‘I am depressed.’ If you want to say, ‘It is depressed,’ that’s all right. If...