You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.