We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

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

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

It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.

This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?