Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

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

The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.