When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.

The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.

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

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

The quieting of our mind is a political act.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.