When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.
As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.
One very powerful and effective way to work with this tendency to push away pain and hold on to pleasure is the practice of tonglen. In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it.