Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.

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.