For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such as overeating or excessive sleeping or overworking or spending too much time texting or checking e-mails. Make a commitment to yourself to gently and compassionately work with refraining from this habit for this one day. Really commit to it. Do this with the intention that it will put you in touch with the underlying anxiety or uncertainty that you've been avoiding. Do it and see what you discover.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.