Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

Every individual has a unique contribution.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.