Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

Use your life to wake you up.

Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.