We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the best practice may be to end our connection, to never speak to or be with a harmful person again. Sometimes in the process of forgiveness a person who hurts or betrayed us may wish to make amends, but even this does not require us to put ourselves in the way of further harm.

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

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.