If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.
every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.
Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you're stuck with it.
The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.
Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.