We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long time—but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear.

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.

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

In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.