You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but your….

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment..

Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are..

Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we e….

Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key t….

In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ours….

Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need t….

This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to d….

The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred..

In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed….

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and o….

Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up t….

I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms….

Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend i….

We're all doing time. As soon as we get born, we find ourselves assigned to one little body, one set of desires and fears, one family, city, state, c….

Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others..

If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring ….

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty..