Anything We Experience, No Matter How Challenging,

Loving Kindness Towards Ourselves Doesn't Mean Getting Rid Of Anything. It Means We Can Still Be Crazy After All These Years. We Can Still Be Angry After All These Years. We Can Still Be Timid Or Jealous Or Full Of Feelings Of Unworthiness. The Point Is Not To Try To Throw Ourselves Away And Become Something Better. It's About Befriending Who We Are Already.

Gloriousness And Wretchedness Need Each Other. One Inspires Us, The Other Softens Us.

Knowing Pain Is A Very Important Ingredient Of Being There For Another Person.

Tonglen Is A Way For You To Be With People Who Need You - Beginning With Yourself.

To Be Fully Alive, Fully Human, And Completely Awake Is To Be Continually Thrown Out Of The Nest. To Live Fully Is To Be Always In No-man's-land, To Experience Each Moment As Completely New And Fresh. To Live Is To Be Willing To Die Over And Over Again.