Faith is not a commodity we either have or don't have-it is an inner quality that unfolds as we learn to trust our own deepest experience.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.