Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.

The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.

We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of suffering, and compassion is the kind of energy that can transform suffering. If suffering is not there, we have no means to cultivate our understanding and our compassion. This is something quite simple to see