What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

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

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.