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.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

Some other people think that awakened consciousness is really about fullness or presence, being completely present for every moment, but these experiences are only one of the dimensions of awakened consciousness. Understanding these different dimensions as facets of awakening can help with the confusion surrounding the different spiritual paths. They're not leading to different places, but rather reflect the luminous and liberated aspects of consciousness itself. These qualities are not far away; in fact, they are right here.

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

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?