If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together.

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.