Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

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?

Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.

Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn’t mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.

Learning to live is learning to let go.

Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you. They are actively helping you to develop your compassion, and so to purify and heal yourself. For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.