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

In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long time—but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear.

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

The quieting of our mind is a political act.

You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.