I finally discovered the only reliable liberation from suffering: not trying to get rid of the problem.

Bardo can be understood to mean “this very moment.” The nowness of this moment is the continual suspension (or pause) in-between our transitory experiences, both temporal and spatial, such as the tiny halt that exists between this breath and the next; or the arising and fading of this thought and the next.

Ego is not an object; it’s more like a process that follows through on the proclivity for grasping, and for holding on to fixed ideas and identities.

everything is in-between. However minuscule the interval might be, it always exists, and it is always bracketed. Everything in the whole world system exists in-between something else.

As many times as my father had repeated that each one of us is buddha, I could not quite comprehend that each of us actually included me. What would my father tell me now? I could be everywhere, but not with him—except for the ways that I would always be with him.

Loving-kindness and compassion are the natural expressions of awareness because genuine expressions of an open heart transcend conceptual ideas and attitudes,

All of life is a magic display of light and form, a universe of infinite blessings that invites us to turn our hearts inside out, and to love completely, to love until the inexhaustible end of dreams.

we can start right now to cultivate more sensitivity to the subtle everyday transitions, the ways that they require letting go, and the lessons they offer.

we often get caught in the illusion that arriving at a predetermined destination will end the mental agitation of feeling in-between.