To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put it on a rock in the sunshine, it will soon evaporate. If we put it in the ocean, however, it will never be lost. Thus the wish is made that we not keep the teachings to ourselves but to use them to benefit others.

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)

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.