We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.

Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.

How well we have learned to let go