Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.

If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.

I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening.

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.