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

We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

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.

As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.