As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .

If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.