What we seek is what we are.

What we seek is what we are.

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

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.

When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.