The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.

Inner #‎ peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your #‎ emotions

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to escape and find something or someone to keep us company. When we can rest in the middle, we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down.