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.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

Learn to watch your drama unfold while at the same time knowing you are more than your drama.

I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.

In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Behind everyone's learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.

At first you think that your sadhana Is a limited part of your life. In time you realize that Everything you do is part of your sadhana.