Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

Train your mind the same way you'd train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.

Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement.

The dharma is a universal medicine.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth's seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, This is a new day.

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

What we seek is what we are.