Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.