Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.
With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.
Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.
Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.
In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.
Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.
We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.
The most overrated underrated player in baseball.
The only one you get even with is yourself.
Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind.
Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.