The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.

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

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.