As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

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

How well we have learned to let go