Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

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

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.