Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.

If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our own minds. We can look at the world with fresh eyes and hear things with fresh ears.

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.