Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.