In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

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

To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.

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

When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.