Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness - you can always remember that you are free in every moment to set the compass of your heart to your highest intentions. In fact, the two things that you are always free to do - despite your circumstances - are to be present and to be willing to love.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.

Every individual has a unique contribution.

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.