Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.