TO CUT THROUGH problems, we need problems.

Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart.

If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.

We're all buddhas. We just don't recognize it.

It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they’d been born with some kind of special knowledge about being happy, that, through some cosmic accident, we never received. Thinking in this way, we make our own problems seem much bigger than they really are.

Any daily activity can be used as an opportunity for meditation.

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.