We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.

We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.

Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things.

We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.