Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Just where you are-that's the place to start!

By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

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

When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to be better than we are in some way. But with this practice you take yourself completely as you are. Then ironically, taking in pain - breathing it in for yourself and all others in the same boat as you are heightens your awareness of exactly where you're stuck.