The quieting of our mind is a political act.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?

The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.