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.

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

Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

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

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the essence of nowness. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place.