We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.

Yes, there are troubles in the world. There's war and hatred, there's sickness and difficulty. And there is also an undying spirit, an inviolable consciousness that is born in each of us. It is who we are, and it's everything and it's nothing.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.