Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

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.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

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