Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.

Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

Many people hope a spiritual practice will let them avoid what they are ashamed of. But when you hide something from yourself, you are going to project it onto your world. You continually find it in others and it becomes the source of prejudices and dogmatic views. On top of that, you feel bad about yourself, because you aren't the loving, open-minded, "spiritual" person you'd like to be.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom