Death is just a change in lifestyles.

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

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

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)

Your distance from your partner is the distance from your heart. The things that make relationships difficult are some of the most precious aspects to us.