There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.
We can always begin again.
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.
Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart.
Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.