Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.

A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done.

If you want to see how enlightened you are, go spend a week with your family.

We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

The way you come to fully appreciate the infusion of the Spirit is to more and more come fully into the moment, where this moment is enough.

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.