No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

What we seek is what we are.

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.

How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.