Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.