All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see, hear, experience what is. If we do not return to that place, we live our lives out of our heads. We blame others; we complain; we feel sorry for ourselves. All of these symptoms show that we're stuck in our thoughts. We're out of touch with the open space that is always right here.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy. Nobody believes his or her life is perfect. And yet there is something within each of us that basically knows we are boundless, limitless.