As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider..

We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36).

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….

Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suff….

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. S….

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

Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the t….

we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the….

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser.".

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 curio….

Hell is just resistance to life..

Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're ….

Use your life to wake you up..

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space..

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered..

Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path..

We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution..

Some of us can accept others right where they are a lot more easily than we can accept ourselves. We feel that compassion is reserved for someone els….

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things..

A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no c….