Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.

Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.

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

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but to use them to benefit others.

We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.