We Practice To Liberate Ourselves From A

If Right Now Our Emotional Reaction To Seeing A Certain Person Or Hearing Certain News Is To Fly Into A Rage Or To Get Despondent Or Something Equally Extreme, It's Because We Have Been Cultivating That Particular Habit For A Very Long Time.

Compassion For Others Begins With Kindness To Ourselves.

Right Down There In The Thick Of Things, We Discover The Love That Will Not Die.

We Can Stop Thinking That Good Practice Is When It’s Smooth And Calm, And Bad Practice Is When It’s Rough And Dark. If We Can Hold It All In Our Hearts, Then We Can Make A Proper Cup Of Tea.

When We Scratch The Wound And Give Into Our Addictions We Do Not Allow The Wound To Heal.