Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.

It's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back.

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.