Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.

Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.

There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that`s here.