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.

In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.

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

We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

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

Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.