The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

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

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.”

In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.