In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.

The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.

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

The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.