There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

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.

It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition.

In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.