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

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.