A major obstacle to meditation is the false belief that you must clear your mind; the real goal is to change your relationship with your thoughts.

The biggest obstacle in meditation is the false assumption that you must clear your mind; instead, the goal is to change your relationship with your thoughts.

We tend to outsource our well-being to external things, which causes us to lose our own power and ability to feel calm and happy on our own.

The concept of 'sustainable happiness' suggests we should learn to recycle our own internal happiness rather than constantly needing more from the finite external world.

When you give up external substances used for relaxation, like alcohol, you are forced to discover and build your own internal power to find that state yourself.

Finding happiness within yourself, rather than from an external product or person, is an incredibly rebellious and revolutionary act in our modern world.

Even a substance like coffee can become a crutch for mental concentration, and giving it up forces you to find that stability and focus internally.

A capitalist society requires its citizens to feel a sense of incompleteness for it to thrive, as this feeling drives the constant consumption of products.

The energy underlying a behavior, not the behavior itself, is what determines if it's problematic, such as drinking to connect with friends versus drinking to numb loneliness.