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

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

Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity, fighting pain, death and loss and hiding from the basic truths of the natural world and of our own nature.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

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

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

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