This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

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

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together.