You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again.

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again.

What you want to get as a teacher is not an email or a Facebook post that says, 'I learned so much about headstands in your class'. What you want to get is 'I learned so much about myself and my life in your class'.

I believe myself capable of great things.

Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.