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.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

That craptastical, gutless, son-of-a-cactus-humping butt monkey!!

Stopbreaking yourself into piecesto make yourself fit.

I have no riches but richer thoughts.

Loyalty will always be found in the things you regret because it mattered.

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.

Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.

People see what they want to see when they need to.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

I have removed a lot of negative influence in my life and try to surround myself with positive people. I have a much more simple life than the old days.

Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.