Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.

The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?

Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape - all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.