To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

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

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

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

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

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.