We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

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

Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.