Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

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's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings.

At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.