Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

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.

You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

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