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

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.

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

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.