Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.