We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.