Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

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

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.

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.

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?