Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

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

It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.

Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.

The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.

The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.