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.

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.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

If we do not try, we will not know.

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

Whatever we attempt is a reflection of our inner thirst, which we hope to quench in all these external ways. What we are looking for lies within us, and if we gave out time and energy to an interior search, we would come across it much faster, since that is the only place where it is to be found.