To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."

Space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking. And now the other person is no longer 'other.' In that space, you are joined together as one awareness, one consciousness.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.