We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.

Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable.

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

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

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

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.