Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

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

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

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.