If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)