Just where you are-that's the place to start!

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

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

Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route, not looking for alternatives, not thinking that there is ample time to do things later