Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.