Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for ….

The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wan….

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our a….

Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on..

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look….

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal..

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives..

In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it ….

All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions..

Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons..

Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit..

The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment..

A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself; it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself..

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications..

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be al….

Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood….

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception..

When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax an….

We can put our whole heart into whatever we do; but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting ourselves up for stress. Instead, we….

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is ….

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or o….