Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

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

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

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.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Meditation is the road to happiness.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

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

It is never too late to turn on the light.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

Our own life has to be our message.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but through understanding and through letting go.

To live fully is to let go and die with each step.

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

Buddhist practice is not to eliminate life's problems but to grow with them patiently and with compassion.

There are many ways to meditate. But at the heart of them all is mindfulness.