Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.

If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.

We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.

Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.