Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the….

The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love..

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine..

Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, wh….

Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts..

Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing ….

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice..

It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us..

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are..

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them..

When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simp….

When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the en….

The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth..

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide..

Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change..

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth..

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradua….

When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 're….

Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day….

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?.

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation..