Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.