An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.

Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

As long as we are mindful and aware, no one practice is better than another.

Don't even think for a moment that you are not going to die.

The beauty all around you is insignificant in comparison to the beauty within you.

Neither words can bring you back... I know now, as I have triedNot the tears... I know now, as I have cried

Don’t believe everything you repeat in your mind!

I long to see everything to know everything to learn everything!

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.

All women speak two languages: 
the language of men 
and the language of silent suffering.
 Some women speak a third, 
the language of queens.

Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.

If you haven't given them your trust, you haven't given them enough.

Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.