The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

"Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.