Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.

The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.

What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.

When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide. We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply. When we can enter a relationship with our treasure house already open, there is no end to the wonders we can find, both within and between ourselves and another.