Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness. It's there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never get down to the essence of it.

"Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out.

If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.