A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

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

Life without forgiveness is unbearable.

We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.

The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?

A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.