“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine”

“We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.”

“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.”

“With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.”

“We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.”