‎Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

We go through life discovering the truth about who we are and determining who has earned the right to share the space within our heart. And now I simply want to share what I've been given. I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my heart is what has brought memory greatest success and joy.

"What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better."

The best teachers teach from the heart, not the book.

An open heart is an open mind.

La persona que un día es tu maestro puede ser tu alumno al siguiente

Let such teach others who themselves excel

Each of us has an inner teacher, a voice of truth, that offers the guidance and power we need to deal with our problems.

Any teacher can take a child to the classroom, but not every teacher can make him learn.

I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

Everybody can be great; you only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.

Third-level, life-long relationships are generally few because “their existence implies that those involved have reached a stage simultaneously in which the teaching-learning balance is actually perfect.” That doesn’t mean, however, that we necessarily recognize our third-level assignments; in fact, generally we don’t. We may even feel hostility toward these particular people. Someone with whom we have a lifetime’s worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow. Sometimes it represents someone with whom we participate lovingly all our lives, and sometimes it represents someone who we experience as a thorn in our side for years, or even forever. Just because someone has a lot to teach us, doesn’t mean we like them. People who have the most to teach us are often the ones who reflect back to us the limits to our own capacity to love, those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds — the places where we feel we can’t love any more, can’t connect any more deeply, can’t forgive past a certain point. We are in each other’s lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.

We are always an example to those whom we are teaching and training, whether we like it or not.

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.