I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.