Wide open, boundless, empty yet abundant being as awareness is our only true and persistent companion.

If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbours travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog.

Jack Kornfield

I’ve built a grass hut where there’s nothing of value. After eating, I relax and enjoy a nap… Though the hut is small, it includes the entire world. …

My Grass Roof Hermitage

To find out what’s truly right for us we usually have to do all the wrong things first.

The bare actuality and raw aliveness of this present moment is all we can rely on. All else is memory and fantasy.

When we really attend, look, listen and sense closely all the myriad aspects of this present moment, can we discover everything is indivisible? No separation, no boundaries or dividing lines of any kind.

The bad news is you are falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there is no ground.

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

There is all this aliveness, all this movement, all this energy here, now. What more could there possibly be?

It is great joy to realise that our fundamental reality is qualityless. When at last, plucking up our courage and turning round and steadfastly gazing upon ourselves, we see that we are transparent and void through and through, there is a wonderful feeling of relief. All our cares vanish in the pure and brilliant light of that perfection, no dark spot remaining.

Gampopa