If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are.

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence.

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.