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

Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.

The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

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.

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