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

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.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.