Any really good scientist is as much an artist as a scientist. All the interesting stuff is found on the edge between knowing and not knowing. I know that sounds like a meditation teacher speaking, but when you're in the laboratory, or you're theorizing about physics, you need to know what you know, but if you can't get out from under that, you won't be able to make that insightful, first-time connection that nobody else has seen before.

Awareness Is Not The Same As ThoughtMore Like A Vessel Which Can Hold And Contain Our Thinking

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.

When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge.

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

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.