My first meeting with Gangaji was accidental. A friend saw a poster for an upcoming meeting in Boulder and asked if I wanted to go along. I didn’t have any plans that evening so I said yes. Since that meeting over thirty years ago, the unfolding revelation called “my life” is what I said yes to in that moment, and more essentially I realized what had said yes to me long ago.

What did I say yes to? As you see in this video clip recorded in Estes Park in 1995, I said yes to what I feared most—Love. I said yes to opening my heart with abandon, not knowing the outcome. Love felt risky and dangerous and then it became unstoppable and undeniable. The moment of surrendering to love was my turning point.

At the end of the retreat I told my dear friend Sallie, I didn’t care what happened to me anymore—“I could just sweep the streets.” The deep well of lasting fulfillment is here, wherever I am. I didn’t end up sweeping streets. After ending my career in television, I volunteered for a year at the Foundation and ultimately joined the GF staff.

As a sister and friend, I wholeheartedly invite you to surrender to the Love that is always present and is the truth of who you are. As the Executive Director of the Gangaji Foundation, I encourage you to share this message of peace with the world just as others have shared it with you. Just like that volunteer who put up that poster, who supported the opening of my heart, you can have an impact on the world in ways you may never imagine.

May we all know peace in good times and bad