Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.

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