Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we need to acknowledge is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

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

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

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.