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

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

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