Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

We believe deep down that we've lost something precious and are seeking it outside ourselves, never realizing that we are carrying it within us wherever we go.

The point is to be free, not to be crazy.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity.

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

Thomson's views on the recent age of the world have been for some time one of my sorest troubles.

This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distances. The fair draws people from as far away as Albert Lea, Owatonna and the Twin Cities.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.