You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense fear, more intense than I had ever experienced before. Life seemed meaningless, barren, hostile. It became so unbearable that suddenly the thought came into my mind, I cannot live with myself any longer.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.