Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's al….

When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, ….

To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like..

There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is..

We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That's why I say you might as well practice wi….

Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teach….

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher i….

Life is a second-by-second miracle..

How do we know if our practice is a real practice? Only by one thing: more and more, we just see the wonder. What is the wonder? I don't know. We can….

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. F….

There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see, hear, experience what ….

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion..

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our ….

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego..

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some ….

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others..

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die..

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us..

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are..

If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy. Nobody believes his or her l….

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whate….