It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they’d been born with some kind of special knowledge about being happy, that, through some cosmic accident, we never received. Thinking in this way, we make our own problems seem much bigger than they really are.

TO CUT THROUGH problems, we need problems.

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.

Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it is immeasurably peaceful and, once stabilized through repeated experience, virtually unshakable. It's an experience of absolute well-being that radiates through all physical, emotional and mental states-even those that might ordinarily be labeled as unpleasant.

We're all buddhas. We just don't recognize it.

The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.

Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.