We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.

We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

We can always begin again.

Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.