Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

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.

Many people hope a spiritual practice will let them avoid what they are ashamed of. But when you hide something from yourself, you are going to project it onto your world. You continually find it in others and it becomes the source of prejudices and dogmatic views. On top of that, you feel bad about yourself, because you aren't the loving, open-minded, "spiritual" person you'd like to be.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.