“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

-Buddha

Compassion Creates Peace

"To live compassionately means to live in peace with others. When compassion is lost in the world, competition, conflict and war inevitably arise. Compassion is the only thing that can help people unite and work together towards creating a more beautiful world for all beings in existence."

- Excerpt from the Unbound Spirit

"Learn how to see.  Realize that everything connects to everything else."

- Leonardo da Vinci

“If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.”

– Thich Nhat Hanh

"Giving a cruel man power and expecting that he won't use it to inflict cruelty is madness."

"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away." - Zhuangzi

If you don't forgive yourself then how will you keep going?

"You can't make changes or move forward in your life carrying the weight of your mistakes.

Imagine putting all you past mistakes into a bag, adding to it each time you make a new one.  The bag would become so heavy, the burden so great, that it would be impossible to keep moving forward.

It's time to put that bag down, take out each item, and forgive so you can let go of the pasts and move forward, having learned the lessons that will make you a better person than before."

- Alicia Rodriguez