The truth is my compass.

Traditionally, we think of the dharma as the teachings of the Buddha regarding the nature of reality, but I find it even more helpful to understand it as the realizations of a mind that is resting in a state free of its usual confusion. This is said to be the unobstructed, “true nature” of our minds, and we glimpse it from time to time as a deeply felt sense of understanding. The “aha!” moments underpinned by a sense of confidence. And the dharma is at times a road map, while at other times a source of comfort. It may appear as confirmation of what we feel in our guts to be true or a lamp on the path of our lives in the places where it is dark and we are most in danger of losing faith. Not in a hero who will rescue us - but in our own heroic potential to enact personal and social transformation. In other words, true refuge.