Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.

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 trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.