If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

Love is not what we become but who we already are

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.

Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.