Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.

Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.