I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening.

Softening what is rigid in our hearts.

What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.