Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.

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.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.