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Life is difficult and painful, just by its very nature, not because we're doing it wrong [pp. 17-18].

My redeemer is always the person next to me.

Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control.

May I meet each moment fully and meet it as a friend.

Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.

Sometimes I think the only thing worth saying is I love you.

The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.

When the mind is clear, behavior is always impeccable.

I would not ask you to do this practice, to undertake this path of liberation from the habits of suffering mind, unless it were a feasible path.

Here is the instruction: Only connect. Wherever you are, right now, pay attention. Forever.

Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is.

Life is easier without imperatives.

The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]

I'd say, "But I'm not happy." And she'd say, "Where is it written that you're supposed to be happy all the time?

The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.

I love the phrase 'I am not afraid!' Maybe it's the best phrase we can say, other than 'I have everything I need.' Maybe they are the same. [p. 14]

Everybody manages one way or another; everyone who is alive and reading this book has managed.

Fear doesn't frighten me as much as it used to. I know it's from clinging, and I know it will pass [p. 29].

May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

He did not confuse compassion with passivity.

Safely connected to my life, and reassured of my essential goodness, I feel at ease, at home, really in the most sublime of homes. [p. 58]

Don't just do something, sit there!

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

We don't get a choice about what hand we are dealt in this life.

Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.

If we can keep at least a bit of the mind clear about temporality, we can mange complicated, even difficult, times with grace.

You are in pain. Relax. Take a breath. Let's pay attention to what is happening. Then we'll figure out what to do. [p. 10]

Perhaps ... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark.

Knowing the truth brings happiness.

Hatred will never cease by hatred, Only love will erase hatred, This is the eternal law.