As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.