The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.

May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, and hold dear with our own vulnerable heart the sorrows and beauties of the world.