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

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

It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.

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

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.