We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.

The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.