Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by strong emotion, do we remember that it is our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can't practice when distracted but KNOW we can't, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.

Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

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