Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.