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

With growing awareness, you can see where you're caught or where you suffer or where you create suffering. You can then turn toward the difficulties that arise in your life with compassion, bow, and say, these too are part of human incarnation.

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was Young. And my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

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

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be.