Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away.

The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.

Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.