The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world

Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.