If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible.

Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often overlook compassion, seeing it as merely a pit stop on the way to more advanced practices. We want something more; we don't even know what. But that's just a trick of our mind. One of the greatest teachings is to practice compassion.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

My books definitely are ambassadors, as you called them. They express what the vision is, what the purpose is.

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don’t want to.