An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

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

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

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.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.

Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.

Self is found in knowledge, devotion and concentration, in integrity, purity, moderation, self-control and intelligence.

The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.

So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals.

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.