Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

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)

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

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

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.