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We all need to be reminded and encouraged to relax with whatever arises and bring whatever we encounter to the path.

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it’s with us wherever we are.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

‘He's promised to see a psychiatrist — but I'm not very optimistic about that. I only ever knew one psychiatrist. Funny chap. If ever a man was in need of psychiatric treatment it was him.’

Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear.

Thinking that we can find some lasting pleasure and avoid pain is what in Buddhism is called samsara, a hopeless cycle that goes round and round endlessly and causes us to suffer greatly.

...he'd come round to the view that Freud would have been a far more valuable citizen if he'd stuck to his research on local anaesthetics.

In fact, anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness.

When things fall apart and we’re on the verge of we know not what, the test of each of us is to stay on that brink and not concretize.

The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last — that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.

Impermanence becomes vivid in the present moment; so do compassion and wonder and courage. And so does fear.

When anyone asks me how I got involved in Buddhism, I always say it was because I was so angry with my husband... When that marriage fell apart, I tried hard—very, very hard—to go back to some kind of comfort, some kind of security, some kind of familiar resting place... I knew that annihilation of my old dependent, clinging self was the only way to go.