We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

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.

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

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

We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.

Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater.