The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.

In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.

Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.