Treat yourself as your own beloved child.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.