Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.