One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!

You can't manipulate a heart open. You can only allow it to open in the right circumstances.

Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.

We are just here, right? We are just people doing our thing. And the most important aspect of anything we do is our motivation, why we do it.

Even if somebody tells us something, the hit, the light goes on inside of us, not out there. We learn and understand everything within ourselves.

I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.