The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.

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

When attachment arises in the place of love, it sees the other as separate; it grasps and needs. Attachment is conditional; it seeks control and it fear loss. Ask your heart if attachment has replaced love. If we speak to our heart, it will always tell us the truth.

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

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

It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.