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.

The most important thing is having the right mind - a mind that can see it. Once you have an open mind, you see a lot of auspicious coincidence taking place.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don’t want to.

I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.

The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.

If you rise with a positive attitude - because everything is possible, everything is doable - if you have that level of confidence, you exude it. It actually inspires the people around you.