Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life