nuggets from 'it's us not them' in shambhala sun

• egolessness, or practicing NOW, frees us from this cycle. but when fear has taken over and we can't control the negative emotions that arise, the internal freedom that comes from egolessness is beyond our means. instead we become fixated. we live in the memory of the past or the fantasy of the future. we are stuck, unable to see the fluid truth of NOW.
• at the heart of the dharma is the truth that the world is fluid. when we practice now, we see the flow clearly. now is now. there is not another now. [how cool is that quote?!]if gentleness is the key, the method is mindfulness. in a sense, speed is the disease of our times. it's always there and it's very hard to extract ourselves from it. but speed is in face just a hallucination, a self-imposed reality...
• when it comes right down to it, the practice path is manual labor of the mind, and it's hard work. but that doesn't mea n that there is no magic. when we pay attention to the details of our life, we do find magic.
• we are enormously capable and free, and if we begin to develop appreciation, our mind doesn't dwell on what we do not have or on what we have lost.
• we need generosity in our mind, which is limitless. generosity is the seed that allows us to receive help in the future.
• the notion of fearlessness is finding it NOW.