“Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.”

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or ‘nowness:’ but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.