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

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

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

Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

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.

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life