God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

Finally we are being told the truth: life isn’t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to go through life thinking that there is something wrong with us when we experience sadness, grief, and physical and emotional pain. The first truth points out that this is just the way it is. There is nothing wrong with you: you have just been born into a realm where pain is a given.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

We come to understand the law of casuality - that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they're experiencing based on their own actions and not by what we wish for them - and therefore we relax in a deep understanding and acceptance of the way things are.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

We mistakenly bind ourselves to be content only when life is feeling pleasurable.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.