Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

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

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

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

If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.