Occupation: Nun Birth: July 14, 1936
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to….
Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others..
Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time..
The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us..
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we fin….
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….
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to ….
When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chö….
Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting ….
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love ….
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing..
Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding….
We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it's rai….
Allow situations in your life to become your teacher..
Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom..
Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version o….
Holding on to anything blocks wisdom..
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment..
In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward..
Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening..