Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

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

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.