Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.