Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.