See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance

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

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tibetan, or other historical traditions, are all different streams in the same river, different currents in the same ocean. With the long view, we can trust that the seeds that we're planting are transforming the world.

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

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment.