Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.

At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

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

Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.

Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.