We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.

Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.

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

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.

Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.