The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."

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.

In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom