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

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

In a society that almost demands life at double time, speed and addictions numb us to our own experience. In such a society, it is almost impossible to settle into our bodies or stay connected with our hearts, let alone connect with one another or the earth where we live.

The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.