You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden

Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.