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

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

If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.

Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.