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

The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work with tonglen, because that is how you start dissolving the barrier between you and them.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.