...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.

I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle.

As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.