...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

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

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.