As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.

My experience of fundamental Truth is that it’s a place of extraordinary intelligence. It’s a place from which great intelligence arises. I call it a place of absolute infinite potential.

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.

Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.

We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world.