When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

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

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.