If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.

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.

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.