The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.