It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.

Use your life to wake you up.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.