Go beyond both negative thinking and positive thinking

How to cultivate equanimity?

There is a purpose for everything we experience, even the things we don’t want to experience

Pleasure and pain are both life’s ringtones – don’t keep hearing the tone, start picking up the phone

Chemical highs can’t cure life’s lows, we need to go spiritually high

Comparing is unavoidable, but comparing mentality is undesirable

Don’t run from pain or rush towards pleasure – refocus on your purpose

Failure is a bump on the road, not the end of the road

See failure as a practical problem, not as an existential problem

Focus not on the pain of failing – focus on the pleasure of learning

Animals choose how to fulfill their bodily drives; we humans can choose whether to fulfill our bodily drives

Even if we can’t change the content of our experience, we can change its context

Failure is not catastrophic – to see failure as catastrophic is catastrophic

Our over-reactions reveal our sore spots

Treat life like a movie that you don’t have to always watch

Transcend duality by absorption in a reality higher than duality