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If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.
Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.
God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.
No man can see God in this life and live because His glory would annihilate our poor, weak human nature.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.
Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need.
Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified
Each one of us has a particular virtue and faults that make the process of becoming like Jesus different.
To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.
The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.
My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center.
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?
A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.
All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.
Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.
Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.
Every life, I think, has that potential because I believe each life is a gift of God... because God is love.
Anger is not bad. Anger can be a very positive thing, the thing that moves us beyond the acceptance of evil.
Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."
Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.
There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.
The body is precious and the body is always going to speak through its own capacity for communication and love.
Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.
Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you.
We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety. . . but ever have recourse to the adorable Heart of Jesus.
Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.
Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.
Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.
At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.
Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
Work is not slavery, then. Work is creativity. It is the expression of ourselves that no one else can duplicate.
Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.
God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.
Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.
Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.
Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.
Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.
The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.
While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.