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

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

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

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.