The more neurosis the more wisdom.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.

In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.

The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think weought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other peoplethink we want to be or ought to be. We give it up and just look directlywith compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat andheartache, no punishment.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.