Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

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

To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.