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

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your attention is wandering and to simply let go of the thoughts and begin again. It is a way of changing our relationship to our thoughts, so we're not so consumed by them, with no sense of space. Having a newly spacious relationship to our thoughts brings both peace and freedom.

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.