The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

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

True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.

We can always begin again.

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.