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.

Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

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

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.