But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!

As believers, we should make the Kingdom of God visible to the people

Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

In each big decision, we'll always make them by faith.

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.

Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.