We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it. Then we breathe out, radiating compassion, lovingkindness, freshness - anything that encourages relaxation and openness.  So you're training in softening, rather than tightening, your heart. In this practice, it's not uncommon to find yourself blocked, because you come face to face with your own fear, resistance, or whatever your personal "stuckness" happens to be at that moment.

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.