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Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.”
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.
Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart
The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.
May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.
We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go
Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.
When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment
What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.
We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.
When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.
To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.
Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.
Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.
But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.
The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.