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

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.