It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

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

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

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

I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.