While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.