Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness. It's there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never get down to the essence of it.

You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

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

Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.