When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.

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

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.