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

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.

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

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge.