Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecatio n, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.

If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.