Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love.

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

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).

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