Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

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

As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.

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.