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.

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to the wind; we could learn to notice that it's raining or snowing or hailing or calm. We could reconnect with the weather that is ourselves, and we could realize that it's sad. The sadder it is, and the vaster it is, the more our heart opens. We can stop thinking that good practice is when it's smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it's rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.