The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.

If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love.

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.