Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart..

When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too..

The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain….

The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always..

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves..

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart..

When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal….

For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a per….

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other..

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed..

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….

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?.

Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us..

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just ….

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compa….

Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck..

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom..

Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are..

Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No o….

So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep ….

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….