Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

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

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.

You cannot fail at meditation.

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.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.