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.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.

The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you.