Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.

Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

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

In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

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

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.