Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

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

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

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

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.