“Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.”

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

If we have nothing material to give, we can offer our attention, our energy, our appreciation. The world needs us. It doesn’t deplete us to give.

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.

Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through loving kindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don’t plan. It’s not as if we say, ‘At 9:10 I’m going to be filled with self-hatred.

When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.

If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to prove that.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.

I feel your absence deeply within my heart because we are already, and almost apart.

There is a place where the sidewalk ends.

Not only are there no happy endings,’ she told him, ‘there aren’t even any endings.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

I thought of you to realize that you haven’t crossed my mind for a while.

Today will end and another day will come – I can’t bend time into softer motions all I can do is live.