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

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.

I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

You cannot fail at meditation.

The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.