Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.

As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

Many people hope a spiritual practice will let them avoid what they are ashamed of. But when you hide something from yourself, you are going to project it onto your world. You continually find it in others and it becomes the source of prejudices and dogmatic views. On top of that, you feel bad about yourself, because you aren't the loving, open-minded, "spiritual" person you'd like to be.