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

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look at the depth of your character now, isn't a part of that a product of those experiences? Weren't those experiences part of what created the depth of your inner being?

The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.