We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.

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