So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

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

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.