Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

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.

I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!

You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.