As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment

It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if one sees everything differently. It is not that at all. Suffering isn't going to go away; the one who suffers is going to go away.

If we do not try, we will not know.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.