Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.

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.

Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.

The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.

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

Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the parts of ourselves that we feel are not worthy of existing on the planet. If we are willing through meditation to be mindful not only of what feels comfortable, but also of what pain feels like, if we even aspire to stay awake and open to what we're feeling, to recognize and acknowledge it as best we can in each moment, then something begins to change.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.