4 Quotes by Ezra Bayda

Having gratitude for being alive, being able to experience an inner delight in the moment, is one of the essential roots of happiness.

Our core beliefs need to be seen for what they are: deeply held assumptions about reality that our particular life circumstances have conditioned us to accept as absolute truth.

Attachment is always a barrier to real appreciation and happiness, because it’s based on the illusion that some external element can make our core pain go away. But when we’re willing to expose ourselves to the pain we’ve been avoiding, the power of attachment fades and the path to a genuine life becomes more accessible.

We think we need to be able to trust, just as we think we need to be able to be loved. But we have it backwards. As adults, we don’t need to be loved. The only real emotional need, if we want to call it that, is to love. To love is our essence; it is who we are.