When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.

What we seek is what we are.

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.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

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

Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.