The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and their eyes open. I want us to be together as if we were lying in a field on the underside of the earth on a clear summer night, held only by the magnet of gravity, looking down into a bottomless sea of stars. I want us to remember together the beauty all around us.

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers!

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.