Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.

When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject anything. Meditation is probably the only activity that doesn't add anything to the picture. Everything is allowed to come and go without further embellishment. Meditation is a totally nonviolent, non aggressive occupation. Not filling the space, allowing for the possibility of connecting with unconditional openness - this provides the basis for real change.

Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.