Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don’t have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.
View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don’t run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.
When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.
The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.
The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.