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

When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.

It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.

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.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.