Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.