If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.

It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.

The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.