This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.

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

That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is in each and every one of us. The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.

I can't say it strongly enough; to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation

To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless. Spiritual warriors can still be frightened, but even so they are courageous enough to taste suffering, to relate clearly to their fundamental fear, and to draw out without evasion the lessons from difficulties.

This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?

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