To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

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.

Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!

You can be as good as Rembrandt, but if no one discovers you, you will only be a genius in theory.

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

Analytics will never tell you everything you want to know.

If you want to experiment, do something temporary.

Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.

No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

Dont count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.