The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

The quieting of our mind is a political act.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.

We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.