We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go away, it will stay the same, or it will get more intense. whatever happens does not really matter.

When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere left to go but where we are. To connect with the present moment is to begin to appreciate the beauty of true simplicity.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

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

We need courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart. We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy-mate rial or spiritual. We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.