The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.