Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

Softening what is rigid in our hearts.

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.

As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .

When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.