How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference in the quality of this journey we are on and what it means to us. It can influence where we go, what happens, what we learn, and how we feel along the way.

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.

Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.