“By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.”

"The practice of inclusiveness is based on the practice of understanding, compassion, and love. … Increasing our understanding and compassion makes our heart grow greater."

Whether or not you know that you are beautiful,  the flowers gaze at you whenever you walk by.  When your heart feels like stone and you've lost sight of the gifts being given,  you are still held by the earth beneath you and kissed by the breath of the trees.  When you've convinced yourself that you're hopeless and that you simply can't fulfill the role that you were born here to play,  the sky is still whispering your name and the stars are waiting for their chance to sing

It’s still possible to fully understand you have always been the place where the miracle has happened: that you have been since your...

"You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good...

The universe is a form of divine law, your reasonable father. When you feel ungrateful to him, the shapes of the world seem mean and...

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it...

As long as we’re caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly...

In the great silence of these distances, I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, even more than I was in Paris, where...

On a day when the world is weighty, dark and dense with need, I want to be the earthworm that gives itself over to tunneling, its every...

“I like to [tell people to] do it before you get out of bed,” Boykin said. “Take three deep breaths, and then [ask yourself], ‘How do I...

Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future. - Jack Kornfield

Who are you, between the early, sleepless morning and the brightest hour of your day? Who will you be, between your failings and the...

Sitting across the aisle on the B train I look at the row of weary faces various shapes, sizes, colors, ages, a horizontal explication of...

I have been given this existence, these years on this Earth, to accept what has come into my lifetime — wars, loves, trucks, betrayals,...

Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why...

Do not force the healing, my love. Healing is always unforced. It happens when the conditions are right. When there is just enough love,...

Because the eye has a short shadow or it is hard to see over heads in the crowd? If everyone else seems smarter but you need your own...

Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up...

It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the...