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

Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.

If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.