People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is ‘nothing.’ It is a process of letting go of what you thought you had become and allowing your true nature to float to the surface naturally.

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

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

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here.