You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

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.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

Your calling should be a pointer for your skill development

In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

The science just hasn't been done.

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

I smoke, isn't that terrible?

Like all enjoyable things, you see, it has unenjoyable parts to it.