It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this evanescent river of life wisely? With mindful awareness and love it becomes clear. You can fight against the river of change, or use its wisdom to teach you how to graciously move and create and flow with the full measure of joy and sorrow, gain and loss, praise and blame that make up every human incarnation.

If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.