Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared by all that lives. It is not just 'our' pain, but 'the' pain and realizing this awakens our universal compassion

Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.

Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.