If you’re aggressive in your dealings, that’s how you’ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode in anger, people never feel comfortable in your presence and you’ll never have peace of mind.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

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

You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things fall apart, letting the world come as it is - working with it rather than struggling against it. You're the only one who knows.

All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.