No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb...just something to feel.

The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.