A Heart Full of Peace

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

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

Unnoticed, thoughts have great power.

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

“If you say that seven hours walk is too long to walk for two families of patients, you’re saying that their lives matter less than some others. And the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with the world.”

Genuine happiness does not come from accumulating pleasant feelings.

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.

The Dalai Lama goes to the heart of things in the most simple and down-to-earth way. “We are visitors on this planet,” he has said. “We are here for ninety, one hundred years at most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful with our lives. Try to be at peace with yourself and help others to share that peace. If you con

It is important to see compassion as a practice. Sometimes we may feel it, sometimes not. At times, the suffering we encounter may seem too much and we may need to back off, close off a little, to prevent being overwhelmed. At such times, we need to create a space where we can regain our strength and balance. From a place of renewed strength, we ca