An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

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

In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

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

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.