If the mind is flexible, the world is flexible.

After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity.

For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are.