When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom. Pride without fixation is experienced as equanimity. The energy of passion when it's free of grasping is wisdom that sees all the angles.

By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.

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

I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.

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)

Softening what is rigid in our hearts.

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.