We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.”

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater.

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.