I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.

It's within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.

The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of my own body, and I am a part of the body of the universe. We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.

Chanting is the main thing in my life.

We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.