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.

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

By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.

Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.

If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.