All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it is immeasurably peaceful and, once stabilized through repeated experience, virtually unshakable. It's an experience of absolute well-being that radiates through all physical, emotional and mental states-even those that might ordinarily be labeled as unpleasant.

The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.

Practice is personal; no two people's experiences are alike.

All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

Any daily activity can be used as an opportunity for meditation.

If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense of relaxation, a vast sense of openness within your mind - which is in fact your natural mind, the naturally unperturbed background against which various thoughts come and go.