Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.

In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.

Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.