The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.

The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.

I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

Our kids go to school and they come out feeling not intelligent, not desirable, not attractive or appealing to others.