Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well..

When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to be better than we are in ….

Lower your standards and relax as it is..

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself..

Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pai….

If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusti….

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering..

Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It allows us to have a more ….

The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wron….

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now..

If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our own minds. ….

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake..

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings..

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller..

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are..

Just where you are-that's the place to start!.

How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present..

Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself..

There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutel….

If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on..

If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also….