There is a delicate balance that we need to honor as we try to find meaning in any event or state of mind: Many people confuse finding meaning with finding a reason, putting our finger on something or someone for blame.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?