Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize that we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is...

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom. Pride without fixation is experienced as equanimity. The energy of passion when it's free of grasping is wisdom that sees all the angles.