Occupation: Nun Birth: July 14, 1936
By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential..
When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending or officious. The only way f….
You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall….
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality..
When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom. Pride without f….
When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness o….
Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd j….
Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this….
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them..
Many people hope a spiritual practice will let them avoid what they are ashamed of. But when you hide something from yourself, you are going to proje….
The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wan….
I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation tha….
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of….
We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good par….
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher..
We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not a….
The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter, we have a choice: we can strengthen ….
If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That ….
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessn….
Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered..
Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to es….