There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

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

It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.

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

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'