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.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

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

As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.