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

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

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

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.

When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.