What we seek is what we are..

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom..

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

It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms.….

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete..

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear sec….

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own..

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?.

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

No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism an….

The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf..

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go.

In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible ….

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall..

Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the sam….

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life..

One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking med….

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation..

If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure ….

Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared by all that lives. It is not just 'o….