We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.

Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)