In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

When you're wide open, the world is a good place.

Sharon Salzberg Quotes