We are so programmed to feel that our emotions are the most important thing in the Universe...We write, produce and act in the story of me. And then we write reviews - and read them and get more depressed. All we can do is let go, and that comes from training. And then we spend less and less time in the darker spaces.

The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff - guilt, anger - this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts.

Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden see another color that nobody else sees?

On the Path, it’s impossible to know how you are doing because it’s the judger who is disappearing.

Chanting is the main thing in my life.

We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that's how we see the world.

Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.