Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.

Inner #‎ peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your #‎ emotions

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.