To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.