Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

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.

in prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

Dolphins and sharks are natural enemies. Dolphins are like, "Quit eating us, " and sharks are like, "Stop smiling all the time, you morons.

When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

What makes the best the best is they never actually think they're the best.

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