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

The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for yourself and all the other people who are stuck in the very same way.