“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.”

“What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.”

“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...”

“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...”

“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”

“My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him.”

“Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, a...”