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

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

In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers!

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.