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

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.

Whatever prepares you for death enhances life.

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

Love is not what we become but who we already are

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

The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being.