Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die..

Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw..

If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it. ….

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….

The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment..

Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as you are in tha….

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet..

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….

In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives..

Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come f….

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it..

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there..

The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and l….

According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time..

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have..

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….

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening..

Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those wa….

Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional c….

At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us..

Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra..