How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well.

We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and too often we feel like we have to exhale all the time. The inhale is absolutely essential - and then you can exhale.

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

Cease consuming, practice generosity.