Love, unless it is for life as a whole, is contaminated by things such as our preferences and memories.

Mental pain is usually caused, not by our being pushed by life to where we do not want—or away from where we want—to be, but by the friction caused by our resistance to the push.

We prefer ourselves into unhappiness.

Happiness prefers to live inside those who do not have preferences, because it never gets evicted there.

We prefer our way into things such as regret, unhappiness, and anxiety.