Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant. - Noah Levine

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

The next step in the process of liberation is to break this chain reaction of suffering whenever life is unpleasant and feeling content only when life is pleasurable.

Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.