Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.

We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease...Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen in the tissues, is the fundamental cause for all degenerative disease. Oxygen is the source of life to all cells.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

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.

There is nothing to do but be.