Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

Things become clear when there is no escape.

Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.