The Dalai Lama says, “Sadly, many of the things that undermine our joy and happiness we create ourselves…the suffering from a natural disaster we cannot control, but the suffering from our daily disasters we can.”

I read these words, then asked myself this morning: what daily disasters am I engaging in that are simply adding to my own sense of suffering?

I had to sit awhile, because turns out, perhaps I don’t like acknowledging I might actually play a role in…