The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.

The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for yourself and all the other people who are stuck in the very same way.

Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.

What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for others, you’re doing for yourself.