“All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.”

“Theres no path to liberation that doesnt pass through the shadow.”

“Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they arent mine, are at least diffe...”

“We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesnt cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a d...”

“Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like youre the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But youre not! There are generations o...”

“It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.”

“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the ri...”

“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We dont know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and fee...”

“Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if were honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devot...”

“Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature.”

“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”

“Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it.”

“As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible: we can say yes, or we can say no.... ...”

“Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not ...”

“We are the Masters of each moment.”