Occupation: Nun Birth: July 14, 1936
Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean..
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are..
Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry a….
Let your curiosity be greater than your fear..
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know..
The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain..
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world..
You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather..
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the c….
Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more ….
It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into….
As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . ..
No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselv….
By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created..
All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do..
The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves..
One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough..
Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are….
The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of….
Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we….
The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?.