Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the best practice may be to end our connection, to never speak to or be with a harmful person again. Sometimes in the process of forgiveness a person who hurts or betrayed us may wish to make amends, but even this does not require us to put ourselves in the way of further harm.