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.

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

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

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

People say things that get you ramped up. I find myself, as my body clenches up when somebody says something that I know is wrong or I wanna catch them in a lie or whatever, that just, "Calm down. When it's your turn, you make your point."