It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to our own inner world. Without insight into our internal cycles of pleasure and pain, desires and fears, there is a strong sense of being removed, apart or disconnected. When we do have an understanding of our inner lives, it provides an intuitive opening, even without words, to the ties that exist between ourselves and others.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

Let the breath lead the way.

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.