I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another.

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

Remember, Be Here Now.