Holding onto misery only brings more misery into focus. All possibilities exist. But the mind has only room for one thing at a time.

Every answer can be followed by another question.

Life must be taken a step at a time. All else is madness.

Things are often not what they seem. And then, sometimes they are. The trick is to learn what is real.

The monk wakes from a dream into a world of mists and thunderclouds. The clouds play children's games with him. They show him dissolving images of yaks and sheep, serpents and hawks, angels and dragons. He closes his eyes and the clouds count to ten. He opens his eyes and they look for him.

Without bridges, there are no connections. Without bridges, there are only chasms. Without bridges, there are only longings. We cannot wait for the land to flatten and the stream to narrow before we seek to cross.

The echo is a gift, passed on to us by our ancestors many ages ago, to remind us of ourselves. To confirm our existence. To remedy our loneliness. Though we must be still in order to hear it.

All mastery is about doing that which the senses tell us cannot be done.