Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.

The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.

The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.