Use Whatever Has Come To Awaken Patience,

Let Go Of The Battle. Breathe Quietly And Let It Be. Let Your Body Relax And Your Heart Soften. Open To Whatever You Experience Without Fighting.

When The Stories Of Our Life No Longer Bind Us, We Discover Within Them Something Greater. We Discover That Within The Very Limitations Of Form, Of Our Maleness And Femaleness, Of Our Parenthood And Our Childhood, Of Gravity On The Earth And The Changing Of The Seasons, Is The Freedom And Harmony We Have Sought For So Long. Our Individual Life Is An Expression Of The Whole Mystery, And In It We Can Rest In The Center Of The Movement, The Center Of All Worlds.

The First Level Of Practice Is Illuminated By The Qualities Of Courage And Renunciation.

Buddhists Were Actually The First Cognitive-behavioral Therapists.

We Do Not Have To Improve Ourselves; We Just Have To Let Go Of What Blocks Our Heart.