Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat all beings at all times with compassion? Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer "yes" to both of these, then you really understand impermanence.

Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.

This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death. This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

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

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.

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