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

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

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

Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.