There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives.

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

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.

When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.

Hell is just resistance to life.

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.