The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.

When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.

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

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.

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

When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.