This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.

Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.