Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.

Grace surrounds us and holds us like the sky holds everything in it … and as soon as I find a way to let go of my story, I keep seeing over and over again that grace is always here and it includes the forgetting and the remembering. The practice is the opening of the hand to catch the raindrops, which are always falling. If you don't open your hand, you get wet, but you don't get much to drink.

We are so programmed to feel that our emotions are the most important thing in the Universe...We write, produce and act in the story of me. And then we write reviews - and read them and get more depressed. All we can do is let go, and that comes from training. And then we spend less and less time in the darker spaces.

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.

You can’t think yourself out of a box that’s made of your thoughts.

Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.