Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.

Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.

We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.