Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.