When other people irritate us, they’re blowing our cover, exposing the places where we are up against the limits of our compassion. When people are blowing our cover, however? There’s an opportunity.

This is my truth: My own life has been an evolution into my darkness, that has resulted in a revolution into my own light. I’ve seen firsthand the power of looking at, turning over, getting curious about, confronting and being with all that is difficult within me, and that has meant feeling difficult emotions.

I want money. I like money. I like having more money than less money and I like buying “stuff” with that money and still having more money left over. Money is just one channel to offer us gateways to things that we want in our lives. Here are 1,443 words on money that could change your life.

Having no other tool at my disposal in that moment, I tried it. I said “Thank you.” When you say “Thank you” in the midst of something like that, you’re speaking from a place of trust. This is deeply courageous trust.