We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

We can always begin again.

When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.