Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.

What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.

Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.

Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.