We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

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.

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.

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.