You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

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

Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick.