“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.

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.