The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

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

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.