Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

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

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

Being fully present isn’t something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it’s being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.

As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.