When there is no more fear, there is true happiness.

At that time, you will be liberated from fear.

Unconditional acceptance is the first step in opening the door to the miracle of forgiveness.

When I look at myself, I see positive, admirable and even remarkable things, but I also know that there are negative parts of me. So first I recognize and accept myself.

If they had parents who had suffered a lot and were afraid of the world and other people, then they would transmit this fear and anger to their children.

It is very important to be able to accept all your ancestors with both their strengths and weaknesses. It will help you to become more peaceful and less afraid.

When we can understand someone else’s suffering and feel love for him or her, we are in touch with the bodhisattva of great understanding.

“Awakened understanding is the practitioner’s only career” is a quotation from the sutra on the Eight Realizations of Great Beings.2 All other careers are not really worth following. No honors or fame can be compared with the awakened understanding that we have when we practice stopping and looking deeply into the nature of things.

We have to recognize this reality and smile. This is the practice of facing our own fear. Fear is always there within us—the fear of getting old, the fear of getting sick, the fear of dying, the fear of being abandoned by our loved ones. It is very human to be fearful and to worry about it.