Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart.

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.

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

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

We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.