Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."

I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.

All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.