The work of your heart, the work of taking time, to listen, to help, is also your gift to the whole of the world.

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there..

There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our se….

There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfor….

To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity….

When I sit with students, I do not just want to help them solve their problems. I want to find a moment with each person where their mind stops and t….

As we encounter new experiences with a mindful and wise attention, we discover that one of three things will happen to our new experience: it will go….

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears..

Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness - you….

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night..

Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibiliti….

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists..

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention..

Our ideas of self are created by identification. The less we cling to ideas of self, the freer and happier we will be..

To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless..

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?.

We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is ….

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful..

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more f….

What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if ….

When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of o….