In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.