I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown’s nose on and you won’t get so angry.

It’s very rare to be in a state where there’s nothing in, where you have no attachment to any idea or concept about yourself. In that state you’ve immediately raised the mind of compassion, because if nothing is in, everything is in, and you are now free to experience yourself as the world.

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don’t take it so seriously.

In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.

When we don’t ask, we don’t let others give. When we fear rejection, we don’t let generosity arise.

The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we’re going to get rid of our problems. Only then can we relate directly with the real issues of our life.

Don’t make a whole to-do about it. Don’t get down on yourself be- cause you’re not an expert rower; don’t start reading too many books in order to do it right.

We’re creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.

Take the selfishness out of anger and you’re left with determination.

Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.