While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be just to keep moving.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom

That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything - every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate - is always changing, moment to moment.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.