Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.

Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either. We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?