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

Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun [fundamental awake human nature]. Then the warrior [brave enough to look at & work with reality] can make a proper cup of tea.

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.

In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.