If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.
This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.
You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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.