We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.

We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route, not looking for alternatives, not thinking that there is ample time to do things later

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.

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

Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.