Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas..

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last..

Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about….

None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine..

We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape r….

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time..

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you….

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everythin….

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal..

Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundles….

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to ….

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully..

Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters..

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….

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chö….

In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is ou….

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom.

On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of tra….

Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We ….

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the po….

The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart..