All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.

It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.

Chanting is the main thing in my life.

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.

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

Grace surrounds us and holds us like the sky holds everything in it … and as soon as I find a way to let go of my story, I keep seeing over and over again that grace is always here and it includes the forgetting and the remembering. The practice is the opening of the hand to catch the raindrops, which are always falling. If you don't open your hand, you get wet, but you don't get much to drink.

If I had been born in Germany with family of Nazis and if I had been raised with those beliefs, there was very little chance that I wouldn't be exactly like all those guards and all those people who tortured everybody.