To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

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.

It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

Every individual has a unique contribution.