I want to accept myself completely, just as I am.

There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those stories lock us in limiting beliefs and lead to suffering, and there are others that can move us toward freedom.

If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.

To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing. If we can help the next generation become more self-aware, empathetic and emotionally resilient, they will bring their wisdom to healing the earth and creating a more peaceful world.

Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance.

I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of "I'm not enough," or "something's wrong with me." Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.