"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.

Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.