If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

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.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

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

The future is the result of what we do right now.