To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

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?

When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

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