Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

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

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.

We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long time—but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.