If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".