The more neurosis the more wisdom.
We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."
Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.
We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.