The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other..

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad. But we could be more compassionate ….

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us..

Inner #‎ peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your #‎ emotions.

Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will b….

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary..

Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our c….

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover aga….

Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding….

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want..

It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so serious….

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time..

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness..

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure..

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us..

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest..

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings..

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We m….

Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we….

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and t….