It is important for us to take time to pause now and then and contemplate how amazing, how precious this human life is. Now and then when you are alone, when you are in nature, you feel this understanding. Your mind becomes so quiet. Your mind is no longer preoccupied with the past and the future. It is no longer busy with all your strategies, all your plans and projects. When your heart is completely open and quiet, you understand this truth naturally, the preciousness of your own human existence. Not only do you feel that your own life is precious, you feel that this whole existence is also precious and sacred.

-- Anam Thubten Rinpoche