In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

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

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.