A Heart Full of Peace

“There is one thing we always

We might think of the mind as being like clear, open space. All kinds of things can arise there, but the space itself is not affected.

First, in the field of morality, we train to pay attention to our actions and speech, and to realize that everything we do and say has consequences. We cannot divorce spiritual practice from the everyday actions of our lives.

By making right speech an active part of our spiritual path, we can bring wisdom and sensitivity to what we say.

We are artists, and life, itself, is our medium.

Love your crooked neighbor with all your crooked heart. W.H. AUDEN

Opening to suffering is the doorway to compassion;

need, and that is the watchman named mindfulness—the guard who is always on the lookout for when we get carried away by mindlessness.”

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. MARCEL PROUST

because they don’t last.