Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart.

If you have rage and righteously act it out and blame it all on others, it's really you who suffers. The other people and the environment suffer also, but you suffer more because you're being eaten up inside with rage, causing you to hate yourself more and more

Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.