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

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

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

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.

I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'