In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind - a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object.

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.