“Life is bigger than the circumstances I find myself in right now. I don’t need to be defined by what is happening in my life right now. There’s so much else, so much possibility, suddenly the door swings open and we can breathe ”
“As long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God ”
“There isn’t anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty four hours a day”
“When Buddhism talks about emptiness, it’s not talking about a type of nonexistence whatsoever. Rather, the teachings on emptiness point to the notion of possibility, that anything can happen ”
“Mindfulness practice isn’t meant to eliminate thinking but aims rather to help us know what we’re thinking when we’re thinking it, just as we want to know what we’re feeling when we’re feeling it.”
“As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise”
“The function of one generation is to make change possible for the next. The real function of each generation is to sow the seeds that will make a better world possible in the future”