Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

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

Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at.