There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

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.

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

But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.