What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Treat yourself as your own beloved child.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

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

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.