Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun [fundamental awake human nature]. Then the warrior [brave enough to look at & work with reality] can make a proper cup of tea.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.

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