Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.

In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. In that wakeful openness, we come home to the peace and freedom of our natural awareness.

Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

To open in a loving way is to let awareness notice that tightening.

Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person's vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that's very fluid and graceful.