You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

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

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.