“Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.”

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

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.

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

Spiritual life doesn’t make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life.

Spirituality does not mean becoming barren. Only a person who is full of life and joy can be truly free.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that the right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about the right results.

If You Figure Out How It Works, Life Is a Joyful Process.

Man’s greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women.

The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, in tearing him up by the root, in taking from him all that he has.

One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.