Our spiritual home is within the heart. Are we able to activate that awareness and treasure kindness and goodness in our daily actions and speech? Can wholesome states of mind prevail even when we face difficult or painful conditions? Moral purity is the harbinger for our waking up to the Truth within us. As we hasten to empty and weed out self-centredness, the poison arrow of craving is extracted. This is freedom – this is life-saving sanctuary. A talk at the Heart of Wisdom Retreat, Insight Meditation Society, Massachusetts, USA in 2019.