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.

Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.