In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

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