When we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn’t just ourselves that we’re discovering. We’re discovering the universe.

Pema Chödrön (1936-), Pema Chödrön is an American Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Chödrön has written several dozen books and is principal teacher at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada.