At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.

Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

One very powerful and effective way to work with this tendency to push away pain and hold on to pleasure is the practice of tonglen.  In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it.