Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.

Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.

Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.