We Are Caught In The Contradiction Of

We're Constantly Waking Up To What We're About, What We're Really Doing In Our Lives. And The Fact Is, That's Painful. But There's No Possibility Of Freedom Without This Pain.

We Are Always Doing Something To Cover Up Our Basic Existential Anxiety. Some People Live That Way Until The Day They Die.

Practice Has To Be A Process Of Endless Disappointment. We Have To See That Everything We Demand (and Even Get) Eventually Disappoints Us. This Discovery Is Our Teacher.

When We Refuse To Work With Our Disappointment, We Break The Precepts: Rather Than Experience The Disappointment, We Resort To Anger, Greed, Gossip, Criticism. Yet It's The Moment Of Being That Disappointment Which Is Fruitful; And, If We Are Not Willing To Do That, At Least We Should Notice That We Are Not Willing. The Moment Of Disappointment In Life Is An Incomparable Gift That We Receive Many Times A Day If We're Alert. This Gift Is Always Present In Anyone's Life, That Moment When 'it's Not The Way I Want It!

In Spiritual Maturity, The Opposite Of Injustice Is Not Justice But Compassion.