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

Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.

No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)

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.

I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.