As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.

Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.