No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.