At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Everything beautiful has to be worked for.

Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.

We become in part what our senses take in.

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.