You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)

Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.