Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was Young. And my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

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

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.