Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.

Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.