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

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.

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

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

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

With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion.

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