If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.

To meet someone who really hurts you is to meet a rare and precious treasure. Hold that person in high esteem, and make full use of the opportunity to eradicate your defects and make progress on the path. If you cannot yet feel love and compassion for those who treat you badly, it is a sign that your mind has not been fully transformed and that you need to keep working on it with increased application.

Day by day, be content with whatever you have and satisfied with whatever happens. Everything else will then fall naturally into place.

Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.

Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them.

If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave