Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

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

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.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

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

For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.

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