As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.