As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.
To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.