If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.

When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.

There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.

Love flows. Love doesn't know boundaries. The mind creates boundaries. The mind creates the boundary of separate me and you. The heart just keeps embracing and opening out.