Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

What we seek is what we are.