The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don’t need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it.

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.

Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

We are what we think, having become what we thought.