Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment..

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others..

Allow situations in your life to become your teacher..

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself..

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way..

When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love ….

The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fu….

Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves..

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the….

What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself..

People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being pu….

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the s….

Treat yourself as your own beloved child..

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort..

Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. E….

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness..

We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara ….

Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel..

When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject anything. ….

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new..

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the p….