Occupation: Nun Birth: July 14, 1936
The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal..
WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re….
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….
Nothing in its essence is one way or the other..
Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are….
Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to ….
Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We ….
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new..
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….
How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping and fearful, or will some shift have….
When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax an….
We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tendern….
The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness..
Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are..
Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well..
The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself..
Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared..
We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there..
In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation..
Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want..
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 ….