If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that’s endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn’t inherent in the place but in your state of mind.
There are many changes in the weather of a day.
Words themselves are neutral. It’s the charge we add to them that matters.
Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
Even if you don’t feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we’re arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.
Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.
When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.
Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.
If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.
The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.
Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.
My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.
We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.
If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.
Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.