"Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the only truth; everything else is an illusion.