“Do an audit of how you spend your money. Does it match what you say you really care about?”
“Our practice doesn't ask us how to end wars, it asks us where the wars begin. In this body. In this flash of rage. In this certainty that I am right and you are wrong.”
“When you encounter obstacles, do not see them as hindrances separate from practice.”
“Many people can study lots of things, but are you living that way?”
“Each in breath is bringing life into the body, and each out breath is a death. We never know if there'll be another inhale.”
“The best way to observe precepts is just to be you yourself and then the precepts are always with you.”
“What would it be like to realize that you're not missing anything, that the brightness is not somewhere else and it's not someone else.”
“It’s one of the challenges of our school: to be prepared, and then to drop it.”