Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

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

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

Loving ourselves opens us to truly knowing ourselves as part of the matrix of existence, inextricably connected to the boundlessness of life... when we see that we are far bigger than the person that is delineated by family or cultural expectations, we realize we are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.