Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.