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

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

There are many changes in the weather of a day.

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.