When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it is bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
— Pema Chodron
When we allow ourselves to be open, to feel our vulnerability, to be affected by others and reality itself, and when we can know deeply what is real in our feelings, we realize that our capacities for kindness, gentleness, and loving are endless. We have, and are, what the Tibetans call the "good heart," a center of intention, openness, virtue, and compassion, all of which have taken root in our being, motivation, attitudes, and behavior. The spiritual life has a lot to do with getting in touch with this capacity. Like the blue sky, sometimes the focus of Tibetan meditation, the mind and heart are endless in their ability to know or be aware and to feel, especially care, concern, loving-kindness, and compassion. Are you in touch with your heart's vast nature? If not, find the way there. You are not far from yourself.
— Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Hours