Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.

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.

Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

What we seek is what we are.