Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.

Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you.

There are many changes in the weather of a day.

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.

The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.