Occupation: Nun Birth: July 14, 1936
Never underestimate the desire to bolt..
It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into….
Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away..
It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are add….
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both..
Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious..
Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it..
Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser.".
The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other..
Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experien….
A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look….
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda..
What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect ho….
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world..
Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry a….
All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do..
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the c….
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are..
Let your curiosity be greater than your fear..
The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain..
You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather..