Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.