Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

I thought it was a stroke of genius that Hans Selye used the word stress, because it's true that if you don't know how to be in wise relationship to life, certain health consequences are bound to happen. If you stand up 12 hours a day on an assembly line, or constantly tell yourself life is not worth living, the body will respond in certain somewhat predictable ways.

Even though in principle we may "know better", we routinely succumb all the same to the incessant, often frantic and unexamined busyness of thinking we have to get somewhere else first before we can rest; thinking we need to get certain things done to feel we have accomplished something before we can be happy.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

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

Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.

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