Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all of that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together.