In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.

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

As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.

Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.