No single substance -- whether physical, mental, or emotional -- creates an addiction, let alone the pain and conflict inherent in its corresponding dependency; rather dependency is the birthplace of all false solutions...

Resisting what feels like an unwanted moment seems natural; but, refusing to accept it... is not...

Every once in a while, we have the great fortune of perceiving a moment of such astonishing beauty, or harmony, that we all but lose ourselves within it. But what is far more amazing...

When I look at myself, it seems that my most prevalent emotion is anger. It's always there. I frequently find myself caught up in what you call "mental movies," remembering all the cruelty and unfairness that seem to justify this anger. I know that indulging in this does no good, but I feel powerless to stop these raging thoughts. What can I do? I really am weary of my own out-of-control emoti...

We cannot “make” things whole any more than the moon makes itself full by its own light. Rather our work is to serve as a witness to life’s ceaseless, concurrent appearance of fullness and emptiness and...

What is real transformation? How do we know when we've actually changed? Are we meant to transform ourselves on this earth? It seems so out of reach. What is our part in the process?...

Real detachment is not won by struggling against attachments, nor is it disdain for possessions, but occurs naturally for the one who has seen that no opposite can cancel its own manifestation.

Learning to see negative reactions as being the self-constructed cages that they are is the beginning of the end of all forms of feeling captive.

There is no freedom to be found in the taking of any one side of the opposites, but in seeing this truth, the opposites reveal right within themselves a third force wherein an overlaying unity is found that is the true nature of freedom.

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

The state of self that wants to conquer is eternally divided, and only the self that can see the truth of this, and the futility of its struggle, has the chance to know ever-lasting victory.