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.

When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom. Pride without fixation is experienced as equanimity. The energy of passion when it's free of grasping is wisdom that sees all the angles.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

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.

Just where you are-that's the place to start!

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.