Guilt is like a blinking red light letting you know that something requires attention and assessment.

The best thing to do is to give it attention and to make an assessment. If there’s nothing wrong, turn off the false alarm. If there is an issue, work to resolve it.

The worst thing to do is to leave it alone. Not only will it be an ongoing source of suffering, but it will also leave you blind to new issues.

Parents totally want their kids to have freedom. They just want to be in charge of it.

Conceding that other people are right can only be as useful as other people are right.

“Political correctness” is an oxymoron. There are very few things that are correct with politics. No one at work has ever said, “Yay! Politics!” except in sarcasm. Describing something as “politically correct” is like saying it is a good idea, according to mostly bad ideas.

When I saw myself as I truly was, who I truly was changed.

Empathy is helping someone you like.

Compassion is helping someone you dislike.

People often say that you shouldn’t care what other people think.

Some might limit this advice to negative or critical feedback. “The problem is,” Brené Brown writes in her book Rising Strong, “when we stop caring what people think and stop feeling hurt by cruelty, we lose our ability to connect.”

Moreover, if you deny anything which leaves you feeling uncomfortable, in your narcissism you risk lingering in delusional and erroneous beliefs, and significantly limit your growth potential.

However, there is certainly some value or truth to the suggestion to discount the opinions of others. Perhaps the problem to avoid isn’t caring what other people think, but rather misalignment of how much we care what a person thinks with how much we value that specific person.

To my point, if you simultaneously despise someone and care a lot about what they think, you’re likely setup for painful and unhelpful interactions with that person.

Try to understand. Don’t try to be understood. That only happens when others try to understand.

There aren’t “dark topics.” There are only topics we keep in the dark. Once we bring them into the light, they simply become “topics.” Discussions of them become healthier, correct actions regarding them become more clear, and undue power afforded to them dissipates.

How to solve two major issues with one move: Only women can own guns.