Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.

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.

Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.

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

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.