In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.

There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy. Nobody believes his or her life is perfect. And yet there is something within each of us that basically knows we are boundless, limitless.

There is no end to the opening up that is possible for a human being.