My favorite quotes

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.”

"Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations."

"You don't need an altar, sit on the ground, feel your lover's body, watch the sky. You don't need a perfect daily practice, wash the dishes, feel the joy spreading through your chest. The ache of grief. Practice being here amidst the mess of being human. Nothing to transcend... Just everything to come home to."

“I once believed love would be (burning red) / But it's golden”

"Being love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability."

"Expectations are resentments under construction."

“We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others....Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground”

"All therapy is grief work. The process of confronting a life where you expect one thing and get another, a life that brings you the unexpected and unanticipated."

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”