Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

Every individual has a unique contribution.

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.