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.

Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.

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

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.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.