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

We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

Patience is not learned in safety.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives.