Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others

Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.