When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

All experiences are welcomed and fully digested, not judged good or bad.

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.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

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.