Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

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

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.

Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

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

In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.