Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.

None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.