Bite-sized daily reflections bringing insights within minutes
Kindling Hope:Daily Passages from Darkness into Light
Wake each day up with a refreshing passage, free of dopamine highs.
Kindling Hope: Daily Passages from Darkness into Light accompanies our journey towards inner peace. In today’s fast-paced world, our senses on overload, sometimes we just want to unplug and take a breather. Zhen-Ru’s lyrical passages allow us to pause, and regain our calm.
Each passage distils ancient Buddhist wisdom into bite-sized insights breaking down modern life's challenges, from the mundane to the extreme. Passage by passage, Kindling Hope delivers an enduring message: despite all odds, hope is never lost. It is within us, just waiting to be found. As Zhen-Ru says
“My dear, let us not despair.”
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Features
Kindling Hope is a go-to book when you need a moment to recenter, or simply to unplug and take a breather when things feel a little full.
Rooted in lived experience, not just theory
Designed to fit into morning or evening routines
Help swap screen time for more "soul" time
Enriched by Spanish artist Clara Encinas's eye-soothing graphite illustrations
Inspirations that Ease Us Through the Day
Each page offers a little support for the kinds of moments we journey through each day.
Bringing Back Pleasant Starts to Your Mornings
Helps one transition from waking up to the influx of phone messages to the soothing insights of a book page, so that in each crack of dawn, one can be eased into a calmer, clearer, and more intentional start.
Navigating Strong Emotions with Heightened Awareness
When intense feelings arise, these passages create the inner space necessary for an inward look, helping one cope with emotional currents with greater awareness, like holding a mirror to the mind.
Warm Companionship Against Low Points
In the face of tough moments, or simply an inexplicable feeling of void, this book offers a steady companionship that gently helps you reconnect with yourself, when taming oneself with fleeting highs of modern-day stimuli seems not to suffice.
Moments of Recovery Before Bed
Before you slide into rest at night, let a gentle dose of quiet reading become your evening ritual—easing the senses, untangling the thoughts, and guiding your mind to stillness.
Reviews from notable readers
“Whether read daily or thematically, let these words wash over you and renew your spirit.”
Sister Susan Kidd
CND, B.A., B.Ed, Masters of Divinity, UPEI Campus Minister & Chair of the Canadian Catholic Campus Minister’s Board of Governors
“Zhen-Ru’s translated poems are vital guides for our divided era, blending Buddhist-inspired imagery with urgent calls for solidarity. Her verses—carrying motifs of rivers reshaping landscapes and shared flames—map struggle into collective hope, and offer an antidote to polarization. This collection transcends cultural preservation, igniting dialogue on interdependence and inner resilience.
Amid escalating global tensions, her vision proves transformative. By framing personal cultivation as the root of societal healing, these works remind us that even fleeting kindness can bridge divides, merging lyrical wisdom with actionable truths for navigating crises.”
Darshan Mehta
MD, MPH, Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, Medical Director for the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine & Associate Professor at Harvard School of Medicine
Excerpts
Selected lines from the daily passages — a glimpse of the book's tone and feel.
Effervescing with Joy
Searching for things
that inspire elation allows us
to effervesce with great joy
each day.Searching for things that inspire elation
allows us to effervesce with great joy each day.
Looking Within for a Way Out
When we look for the causes of suffering within
we give ourselves a way out.
Rewriting Memories
Can memories be rewritten?
Home to All
Our compassion can become
a source of refuge in others’ lives.
Cascade
In darkness
a tiny flicker of light still burns—
no matter how small, a good deed is a light in our lives.
Rising Above
The bottom is our vantage point
—our new horizon—
from which
both darkness and light emerge.
The sun sets below the horizon,
the sun rises above the horizon.The bottom is our vantage point—our new horizon—
from which both darkness and light emerge. The sun
sets below the horizon, the sun rises above the horizon.
About the author
About Amrita Translation Foundation
Based on Prince Edward Island, Amrita Translation Foundation is a group of monastic translators committed to creating a happier, more peaceful world. It aims to preserve Buddhist scriptures and make them accessible to a wider audience. To ensure the highest level of accuracy, this team of monastic translators has dedicated their lives to the study and practice of Buddhist teachings. They are educated and trained in the Five Great Treatises curriculum, a rigorous Buddhist curriculum with roots tracing to the Tibetan and ancient Indian Nalanda traditions.
About Kacy Lin
Kacy Lin is a translator who specializes in the translation of Buddhist works from Mandarin to English. She holds a master’s degree in psycho-spiritual studies from the University of Toronto, as well as a bachelor’s in English literature (with minors in Buddhism and visual arts). She has dedicated many years to the translation and practice of Buddhist teachings.
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