Genuine compassion

Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other. ~ His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

What is your work?

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ~ Rumi

What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl. ~ Rumi

The elemental struggle is with our feeling of being wrong, with our guilt and shame at what we are. That’s what we have to befriend. ~ Pema Chodron

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~ The Buddha