Occupation: Nun Birth: July 14, 1936
The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always..
If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it. ….
Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. E….
If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down..
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully..
While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves..
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….
Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment..
No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselv….
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering..
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….
Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die..
If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work ….
The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and l….
We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36).
Some of us can accept others right where they are a lot more easily than we can accept ourselves. We feel that compassion is reserved for someone els….
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a bro….
When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we may discover a sp….
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 ….
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….
The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering..