Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
...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.