12/29/2025
š Today, we donāt have any material gift to offer you. But there is one gift weād like to shareāsomething most of us have never received, something precious. Itās a key.
This key can unlock peace, love, kindness, compassion, and happiness. And hereās something beautiful: these things have been with you the whole time, waiting quietly inside.
Weāve just locked them up in a box somewhere. We kept them safe and then, in the busyness of life, in all the rushing and striving, we forgot about them. No one rang the bell to remind us they were there. So tonight, weāre offering you this key with open hearts. Weāre here to gently remind you: Hey. Hello, dear friends. The box is right there.
š« You have peace inside of you. You have happiness and compassion and love and kindnessāright there, inside your heart, always with you. All we need to do is get that key and unlock it. Let peace be free. Let loving-kindness and compassion flow like a gentle river. Let happiness be with us, warming us from within.
⨠So how do we do that? Through mindfulness. When weāre mindful, when weāre truly present with ourselves and with life, peace becomes possible. Happiness becomes real and lasting.
Think about itāeven now, there are gifts and presents that bring us joy, arenāt there? But that happiness often feels temporary, like holding water in our hands. Weāre happy in this moment, our hearts full, and later something shifts and the feeling fades. It comes and goes so quickly. We find ourselves chasing that fleeting happinessāreaching, always reachingāfor the kind we cannot quite hold onto. Itās impermanent, always changing, like clouds passing through the sky.
But real, lasting happiness and peaceāthe kind that stays with us through storms and sunshineācome from mindfulness.
š The key is mindfulness. The box is inside your heart. Peace, love, kindness, compassion, happinessātheyāre all already there, waiting patiently for you to remember them. All we need to do is unlock them and let them shine.
May you and all beings be happy and at peace. š