It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.