“Right where you are, the potential of the universe is.”
“Emotion is the bridge between thinking and sensation.”
“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”
“If you are going somewhere take all of you there.”
“Today is the day to live dreams and go for goals.”
“Mindfulness is by far the most supreme expression of gratefulness for being alive.”
“If I say A lotus for you, a Buddha to be, it means, I see clearly the Buddha nature in you.”
“It s okay to cry.”
“How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.”
“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth.”
“Actually, there is beauty in most things, and it is the infinite variety that allows us to see it.”
“The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.”
“Emotions become a wonder of your world once you have goals to channel your passion into.”
“But remember, there s no greater gift than the present.”
“Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.”
“Many of us live like dead people because we live without awareness. We carry our dead bodies with us and circulate throughout the world. We are pulled into the past or we are pulled forward into the future or we are caught by our projects or our despair and anger. We are not truly alive; we are not inhabited by awareness of the miracle of being alive.”
“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart...”