Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.

As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.

Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and letting it be a way to uncover the silliness of the human condition-the tragic yet comic drama that we all continually buy into-you could develop a lot of wisdom and a lot of kindness as well as a great sense of humor.