You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

The quieting of our mind is a political act.

In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.