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.
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.
Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.
Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.
To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like.
We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That's why I say you might as well practice with each moment.
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.
In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.
But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.
There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.