Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

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

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.