...we are all fellow human beings walking each other home. - Ram Dass

At night he didn’t seem to sleep like I did. That is, any time I’d wake up at night, I’d look over and he would be sitting in the lotus position. And sometimes I’d make believe I was asleep and then open sort of a half-eye to see if he wasn’t cheating — maybe he was sleeping Now — but he was always in the lotus posture.

The caterpillar does not become a flying caterpillar; it morphs into a butterfly.

When you get to those edges where you say, “I can’t handle that” or “I’m not going to do that,” take a look at the mindset you are holding onto. There is the root of your suffering. That’s where your mind is in relation to what is.