It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

No amount of outer technology, no amount of computers and biotechnology and nanotechnology is going to stop the continuation of warfare and racism and environmental destruction. What's called for on the Earth at this time is really a change of heart ... the question is really not the future of humanity, but the presence of eternity.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

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.