“We have to be endlessly humbled and endlessly receptive. And what a joy! That, to me, is the joy of practice: to be endlessly receptive to being changed by whatever kind of ‘meat’ you're getting.”
“Equanimity is not indifference. If we imagine it to be dependent on indifference, we either dissociate from our life, or create internal conflict with our own emotions. Both are a kind of inner violence.” —Domyo Burke
“A vow is not a project you complete. It's a quiet orientation of the heart; a subtle but steady leaning, something you lean your life toward even when you've lost your footing.”
“Whatever your sorrow or suffering is; can you allow it to be a gate to meet life more intimately, rather than something so special and rarefied that it breaks connection and intimacy?”