Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.

You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough.

Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the intricate web of co-arising that links one being with all other beings, and to apprehend the reciprocities between thought and action, self and universe.

No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction of plant and animal species. We are going to have to want different things, seek different pleasures, pursue different goals than those that have been driving us and our global economy.