To watch a thought arise and pass is to discover you aren’t that thought.

“The secret is that the mind does not exist in the way we normally perceive it.”

Reality is more fluid and lighter than our habitual grasping makes it appear.

When you look for awareness, you fail to find it—and find instead that it’s what you are.

Even insights into emptiness, when we cling to them, can become obstacles along the path.

“Wisdom and compassion—the two are the same thing looked at from different angles.”

True compassion for others requires us to first meet our own suffering with compassion.

Greed, aversion, and indifference can become detachment, compassion, and equanimity.

“If we open to whatever happens, then there's no problem. With that comes joy.”

Every person, no matter their status, is at the center of a world that greatly matters.

Real growth begins inwardly, only gradually revealing itself in how we speak and act.

Our judgments of others are windows into—and opportunities to examine—our own minds.

“Every one of our defilements is connected at its source with very powerful wisdom.”

Practice becomes another form of grasping when it is driven by ambition or expectation.