Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

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.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.

We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.