You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there.

You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'