Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

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

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.

Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.