Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you.

I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.

Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.