All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers!

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.