The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.