Dear friends, 

All of us are full of dreams and seek for happiness. Out of this inner urge we do what we constantly do, yet in the end experience but frustration, fear and discontentment.

Happiness, joy and harmony are not utopian. But our own chance for happiness, true guarantor for happiness ist compassion, active compassion: Solidarity and responsibility resulting in harmony, love and joy.

What we think, say and do not only influences our settings, our environment but all our future. We are all interconnected. Not only is everyone interconnected, everything is interconnected. Our life, its quality, all living creatures are in our hands, the hands of each and everyone of us.

May we all, each and everyone of us, have a New Year full of understanding, active commitment and togetherness. The world depends on it.

With prayers,

Chöje Lama Palmo