I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

When I ask people to contemplate selflessness, the sometimes react as if I've asked them to put their house on the market or give away all their money. If there was a self that existed in the way we think, discovering selflessness would be like putting our house on the market. But in the Buddhist tradition, the discovery of selflessness is called "completely joyful." It's not called "the raw end of the deal," or "I'd rather go back to bed," or "This is scary and depressing."

For a lot of us, the opposite of auspicious coincidence is obstacles. Life usually is a mixture of both, but as we begin to exhibit exertion, more and more auspiciousness happens.

It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity.

When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.