Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.