If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything - not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is. That is what we are doing when we sit down to meditate. That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.

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

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover what is true isn’t just a matter of honesty but also of compassion and respect for what we see.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

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 idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.