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

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser.".

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….

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 ….

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

Use your life to wake you up..

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

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

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space..

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36).

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 ….

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider..

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….

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

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully..

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compa….

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you….

Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die..

In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is ou….

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom.

We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good par….