We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

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

By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.

The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

Cool loneliness allows us to look honestly and without aggressionat our own minds. We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think weought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other peoplethink we want to be or ought to be. We give it up and just look directlywith compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat andheartache, no punishment.

As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .