Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.

One of the things that I think makes it hard in this society for us to tell the truth is the kind of conventional relationship to adversity. Things aren't always easy and rather than being taught to have kindness to ourselves and others in the light of that we're taught something very different; that it's wrong and rejected - that's a lot of conditioning to step away from.

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.