The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.

When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.

The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.