“To be fully alive, fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to always be in no-mans-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh...”

“My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon t...”

“We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who...”

“The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things...”

“Abandon hope.”

“But often it is a seemingly irresolvable relationship that teaches us the most, once we're willing to be vulnerable and honest, once we're willing to connect with what Chogyam Trungpa called "the g...”

“If only I woulda done that.I really shoulda done that.I coulda done that.I ask, Do you really know what your life would be like now if you made those choices? Believing in regret strips away our on...”

“For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy...”

“Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.”

“And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, acco...”

“When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.”

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”