You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

I am totally amazed at the spread of interest in meditation. When I first came back from studying in India in 1974, I would be asked in social situations what I did. When I replied, "I teach meditation" they would frequently look at me as though to say "That is weird," and sort of sidle away.

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.

I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.