What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?

Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

Learning to live is learning to let go.