There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

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?

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.