large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.

Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.

Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it.

If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.

If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.

large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.

Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.