Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Meditation is bringing the mind home.

Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic change, to persevere with calm and patience. How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.

What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.

Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.