It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying to make it disappear.

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

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.

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