Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

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

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

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.

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.

I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle.