The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

If it never rained, nothing would grow.

Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it

I firmly believe that none of us in this world have made it until the least among us have made it.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.