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

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."

Just where you are-that's the place to start!

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover what is true isn’t just a matter of honesty but also of compassion and respect for what we see.

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.