If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. Votes: 11
Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples. Votes: 0
Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons. Votes: 0
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. Votes: 0
The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. Votes: 0
All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do. Votes: 0
Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening. Votes: 0
As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . . Votes: 0
By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential. Votes: 0
By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created. Votes: 0
Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared. Votes: 0
Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear? Votes: 0
Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious. Votes: 0
Hell is just resistance to life. Votes: 0
In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others. Votes: 0
Patience is not learned in safety. Votes: 0
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing? Votes: 0
The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart. Votes: 0
The more neurosis the more wisdom. Votes: 0
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are. Votes: 0
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves. Votes: 0
There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself. Votes: 0
Use your life to wake you up. Votes: 0
Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. Votes: 0
We already have everything we need. Votes: 0
We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness. Votes: 0
We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now. Votes: 0