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

Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

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

Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak; it is unshakable.