Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Being fully present isn’t something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it’s being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.

When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.