If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

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

So you work on yourself as a gift to other human beings. Then you use every situation you have with other human beings as a vehicle to work on yourself by seeing where you get stuck-where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the stuff.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the nature of your own resistance more clearly, struggles, inner dialogues, the way in which you procrastinate and develop passive resistance against life. As you cultivate the witness, things change. You don't have to change them. Things just change.

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.