- Every moment is intended to be use for self-discovery, not for proving yourself.
- The wall of self-limitation that we meet is actually a gate.
- Engaging in distractions is an attempt to get rid of the feeling of being unsettled.
- Useless suffering is the attempt to pay off an imagined debt.
- You cannot get stuck between a rock and a hard place without the mind comparing the perceived rock to the hard place. Our present level of consciousness IS the rock and the hard place.
- You cannot see what you can grow into from your work, but the mind imagines it, which sows the seed of fear.
- Genuine spiritual work is not about getting you pumped up. It is about pumping all of the hot air out of you.
- As above, so below. As within, so without.
- When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the student is ready, the limitation is revealed.
- The husk is not something that is against the seed, but is something that is necessary for the seed to grow.
- Suffering is unavoidable, but the question is whether it will be useless or useful.
- The platitude that "everything is going to be OK" is the avoidance of present pain, which is intended to be encountered.
- Within any weakness you will find a secret strength, if you are willing to meet that weakness.
- The condition is not the source of the conflict you are in. The condition is the teacher. The refusal of the teacher is the refusal of a new possibility and a new path.
- You cannot genuinely care for another human being when all that you are aware of is yourself.
- The condition is not what the mind sees. The condition is what the mind sees about itself.
- Learning to be conscious of and consciously bearing the appearance of any limitation (which is the teacher) is useful suffering.
- I can't teach anyone anything more than what I'm willing to learn about myself.
- Expecting a reward outside of just doing the right thing is useless suffering.
- We don't know how to do nothing when doing nothing is the answer.