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.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.