Occupation: Nun Birth: July 14, 1936
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn you….
It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so serious….
Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean..
The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves..
If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our ….
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation..
It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rath….
We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things..
You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and….
We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake..
Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discove….
What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?.
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people..
This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind..
The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we….
If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it..
In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can ….
Hell is just resistance to life..
Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep..
Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodh….
In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it ….