The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

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.

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.