I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing.

To love somebody is to let them be who they are and do what they have to do.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

When you meet your guru or a being who knows, who is no longer loving, but has become love, a being who is sitting in truth, and in compassion and kindness for all beings - you know. When I met my guru, I knew. And it was before I met him physically, actually.

Grace surrounds us and holds us like the sky holds everything in it … and as soon as I find a way to let go of my story, I keep seeing over and over again that grace is always here and it includes the forgetting and the remembering. The practice is the opening of the hand to catch the raindrops, which are always falling. If you don't open your hand, you get wet, but you don't get much to drink.

I chant to save my miserable ass. That's what I do.

I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing.