By that time, you will have trained your attention to adhere to doing, as if life goes somewhere. But nothing makes a real difference in old age—or at any age—but depth. You can be a millionaire at twenty or eighty, and still your life will feel empty and meaningless unless you have learned to feel beneath the…

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Instead of tensing your body, you can relax your belly while you breathe and feel deep hurt. Instead of turning away, you can look into your lover’s eyes while you feel their pain. You can serve your lover’s openness by offering yours.

Do your best to create pleasure and comfort in your life. But to live true, live open. Resist nothing.

Many people you know have earned plenty of money and had numerous relationships, yet their hearts are neither free of fear nor full of love. Doing is a fact of life. But its rewards are overrated. Open your heart now, and be free, as this entire moment, alive as love.

Feel your lover’s heart opening and closing as you speak, using your words like music to bring a smile to your lover’s heart, gently evoking an openness of deep trust. Your lover can feel your depth feeling their depth, and so relax open with you. Allow your poetry to spring from open depth felt as one by both your hearts.

Friendships, love stories, dining, shopping, the intimate theater of hurt and joy, of love lost and gained—the feminine is at home in the fullness of emotion and sensuality, not the empty, unborn void from which the masculine witnesses life.

If you won’t embrace and open as your mother’s rejection of you, then it defines your quiet anguish. If you won’t embrace and open as your fear of success, then it will define your impotent recoil.

Finally, you can’t help but live true to what is, whatever is. You stop trying to buoy yourself with motivation and positive thinking. You open as the lack and the darkness you sometimes feel. You are willing to feel, breathe, and be everything, dark and light. Opening in every now-moment, your life is…

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At heart, you are openness, as is everyone. The idiot on TV that you find so disgusting is the same openness that you are. The rapist you despise is as you are. The foreign dictator you abhor is as you are. To pull away from someone, to feel different at heart, is to enact a lie of separation.