Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

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

It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.

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.

The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.