Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.