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

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.

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

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

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