The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.

Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

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

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.

When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.