Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.

Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.

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

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.