The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.

As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

Thoughts are just moving through consciousness. They have no power. Nothing has reality until you reach it, grab it, and somehow impregnate it with the power of belief.

Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

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