Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.

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

We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?