In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.

Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.

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

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an orange that releases its fragrance to our touch, the unfathomable depths of the eyes of our lover. No creation story, no religious system can fully describe or explain this richness and depth. Mystery is so every-present that no one can know for certain what will happen one hour from now. “ It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life.