It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.

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.

One declaims endlessly against the passions

The essence of life isn't just to survive, but to also introduce your life to a very meaningful positive purpose.

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

Our passions are ourselves.

I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.

I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard.

They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

People who are good to each other make each other good.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.