Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.”

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.

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.

It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.