We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out your attachment, your clinging, to pleasure, to pain, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a place where you’re vulnerable, the universe will find a way to confront you with it.

A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.