There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

Use your life to wake you up.

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That’s not considered to be a problem. The point is to see it.