Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am.

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

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.

Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.