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

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.

...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

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

The quieting of our mind is a political act.