If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

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

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.