The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness.

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.