The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter, we have a choice: we can strengthen our resentment or our understanding and empathy. We can widen the gap between ourselves and others or lessen it.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.

Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

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