How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.

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.

When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred.

Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"

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