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.

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.

Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.