It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.

It takes a tremen­dous act of courage to admit to your­self that you are not defec­tive in any way what­so­ever.

Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.

It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.