The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of these experiences in the vast terrain of our existence. It is part of what makes life grand-and it is also why our minds take us on such a crazy ride. If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience, if we can lean into the difficulties of life and the ride of our minds, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us.

It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.