Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers!

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life