God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.