For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

I would like to say, ladies and gentlemen, that you shouldn't be afraid of who you are. That's the first key idea. You shouldn't be afraid of who you are. You should NOT be afraid of who you are. It's very important for you to realize that.

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is.

Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.