Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.
We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.
Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.
How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.
The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky – that’s called liberation.
Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You’d just like to have a little peace, you’d like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.
Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.
Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don’t want to let them go.
Just where you are-that’s the place to start!
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
We already have everything we need.
Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren’t really opposed to each other.
Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.
Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.