Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.

Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this space of becoming, we are subtly leaning forward into the future, trying to have security based on feeling that we can hold on, we can try to keep things from changing.

I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find profound belonging, that I might find a hidden source of love and compassion. Like a homing instinct for freedom, my intuitive sense that this was possible was the faint, flickering, yet undeniable expression of faith.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.