• You do not need to be infallible.
• Be in the present moment with the one you love, without assuming or expecting anything. Being present for your partner is the greatest gift you can give.
• We need to understand the consequences of harmful actions, speech, or thoughts; and restlessness, esp. compulsive planning.
• Let go, moment by moment.
• Words should be coherent and controlled, clear and pleasant, calm and gentle, and not express desire or hatred.
• In times of need, one should rise to the occasion and fight bravely for what is right.
• Seeing the dissatisfactory nature of much of the content of mind, opens a path to freedom. When we see that what we're grasping is on fire, we stop reaching for it. Slowly, the mind is reconditioned to see what it's doing.
• Abandon poisonous food.
• Do what is beneficial.
• Life repeats and constantly enforces the lesson to 'look underfoot' - meaning you are nearer to the divine and true sources of your power than you think. The great opportunity is where you are.
• Joy creates spaciousness in the mind that allows one to hold suffering without being overwhelmed or collapsing into helplessness or despair.
• This moment is all we really have to work with. But we forget we are here. We are in the here and now.
• To the extent that we are able to see or know our automated patterns, we are then no longer bound by them.
• Intimacy is an experience of non-separation, of being at one with whatever is happening.