The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

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