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.

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.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

If you rest in the silence inside, all those you meet will have their spiritual hearts resuscitated.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so dependent on social approval. You can be a little more eccentric. You can be more alone. And you can examine loneliness and boredom instead of being afraid of them. There is such an art and a possibility of aging.