We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

Take three conscious breaths. Just pause. Let it be a contrast to being all caught up. Let it be like popping a bubble. Let it be just a moment in time, and then go on. Maybe you are on your way to whatever you need to do for the day. You are in your car, or on the bus, or standing in line. But you can still create that gap by taking three conscious breaths and being right there with the immediacy of your experience, right there with whatever you are seeing, with whatever you are doing, with whatever you are feeling.

The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.