The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.

Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That’s not considered to be a problem. The point is to see it.