A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

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