When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.

Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.

The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the bodhichitta teachings, the only way to practice them fully, is to abide in the unconditional openness of the prajna, patiently cutting through all our tendencies to hang on.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pain. Someone needs to encourage us: that this soft spot in us could be awakened, and that to do this would change our lives.