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

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

Doing nothing means unplugging from the compulsion to always keep ourselves busy, the habit of shielding ourselves from certain feelings, the tension of trying to manipulate our experience before we even fully acknowledge what that experience is.

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

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

Meeting people in a genuine way and feeling like there is a vital and meaningful connection going on makes me come alive.

Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.