Occupation: Nun Birth: July 14, 1936
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are..
Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, ….
What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51).
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go..
Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear mo….
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, tha….
The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?.
If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient..
Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're ….
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 ….
Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will b….
It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we….
Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide..
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun [fundame….
Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we….
If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment..
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 you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years,….
The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort..
Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is ….
Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons..