The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

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

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.

Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.