No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.

Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. As we intend and then act, we create [our] karma: so another key to understanding the creation of karma is becoming aware of intention. The heart is our garden, and along with each action there is an intention that is planted like a seed. The result of the patterns of our karma is the fruit of these seeds.