The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems. To put it simply, using your belief system this way creates a situation in which you choose to be blind instead of being able to see, to be deaf instead of being able to hear, to be dead rather than alive, asleep rather than awake.

Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.