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.

Life is a second-by-second miracle.

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

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

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

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.