The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

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.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.