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

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.