Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.

If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.

The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.