I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

Accidents are just from where you're looking; to the ego, it looks like it's miracles and accidents.