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

Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.