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

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

One of the essential tasks for living a wise life is letting go. Letting go is the path to freedom. It is only by letting go of the hopes, the fears, the pain, the past, the stories that have a hold on us that we can quiet our mind and open our heart.

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.

How well we have learned to let go

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.