Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.

it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.